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Definition of provoke

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Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..

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Provoked :: Provoked (imp. & p. p.) of Provok.

Urge :: Urge (v. t.) To provoke; to exasperate.

Quarrelsome :: Quarrelsome (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Anger :: Anger (v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

Snappish :: Snappish (a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

Stimulant :: Stimulant (n.) That which stimulates, provokes, or excites..

Invidious :: Invidious (a.) Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as, invidious distinctions..

Salmis :: Salmis (n.) A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite..

Provokement :: Provokement (n.) The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition..

Provocative :: Provocative (a.) Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting..

Provoke :: Provoke (v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.

Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.

Hector :: Hector (n.) A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes..

Teen :: Teen (n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.

Kindle :: Kindle (v. t.) Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame..

Aggravate :: Aggravate (v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

Disgust :: Disgust (v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by..

Exasperate :: Exasperate (v. t.) To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings..

Niobe :: Niobe (n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone..