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Meaning of 'provoke' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Provoke [ v. i.]
- To cause provocation or anger.
- To appeal. [A Latinism]
2 . 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.

Meaning of 'provoke' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . provoke [ v]
Meaning (1):
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Example in sentence:
  • arouse pity;
  • evoke sympathy;
  • raise a smile
Meaning (2):
- annoy continually or chronically
Example in sentence:
  • He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked;
  • This man harasses his female co-workers
Meaning (3):
- evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Example in sentence:
  • Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple

Nearby Words:

pro pro rata pro thyalosoma pro- proa proach proant proatlas probabiliorism probabiliorist

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