Synonyms for provoked
pro·voked

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1. aggravated, provokedadjective

   incited, especially deliberately, to anger

   "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child"

   Synonyms:
   aggravated

   Antonyms:
   unangry(p)

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1. List of paraphrases for "provoked":

   caused, aroused, triggered, led, induced, sparked, raised

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1. Antony Blinken:

   Our concern is that Russia may make a serious mistake of attempting to rehash what it undertook back in 2014, when it amassed forces along the border, crossed into sovereign Ukrainian territory and did so claiming falsely that it was provoked.

2. Louis Portella Mbuyu:

   The bombings have provoked alarm as well as forced and precipitous displacement of the population, again this Wednesday, there were some bombings not far from Kinkala, in the village of Soumouna.

3. Liz Cheney:

   Today, our federal law enforcement is being threatened. A federal judge is being threatened. Fresh threats of violence are rising everywhere, no patriotic American should excuse these threats or be intimidated by them. Our great nation must not be ruled by a mob provoked over social media.

4. Oleksiy Danilov:

   The incident with the American MQ-9 Reaper UAV, provoked by [R]ussia in the Black Sea, is [P]utin’s signal of readiness to expand the conflict zone with the involvement of other parties, the all-in tactic is the constant raising of rates in conditions of a strategic loss and hoping that circumstances would change.

5. Samuel Pepys:

   I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.