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provoke
Found in thesaurus: make, create, cause, do, challenge, nettle, vex, irritate, gravel, rag, bother, annoy, get to, rile, chafe, devil, get at, nark
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provoke
v.
anger, irritate, annoy; incite, instigate; stimulate, arouse; cause, induce, bring out
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Provocation
Provocation and provoke may refer to:
- Provocation (legal), a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions
- Agent provocateur, a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity
- Provocation test, a way of medical testing for conditions such as an allergy by provoking the immune system's response
- Provoke (album), a 1998 album by Altar and their final release on Displeased Records
- Provoke (magazine), a Japanese photography and arts magazine, 1967–1968
- Provoked (film), a 2007 British film starring Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews
- Provoked (album), a 2008 album by Henry Rollins
- Provoked (Sunny Sweeney album), a 2014 album by Sunny Sweeney
- Provoke (horse), a racehorse
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provoke
Verb
1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
(synonym) arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise
(hypernym) make, create
(hyponym) strike a chord, touch a chord
(derivation) incitement, incitation, provocation
2. call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
(synonym) evoke, call forth, kick up
(hypernym) cause, do, make
(hyponym) pick
(verb-group) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
(derivation) incitement, incitation, provocation
3. provide the needed stimulus for
(synonym) stimulate
(hypernym) challenge
(hyponym) entice, lure, tempt
(derivation) incitement, incitation, provocation
4. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
(synonym) harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest
(hypernym) annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
(hyponym) needle, goad
(derivation) aggravation, irritation, provocation
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provoke
v.
vyprovokovat; podněcovat
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provoke
Czas.
wywoływać; prowokować
