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Synonyms for provoke
prəˈvoʊkpro·voke
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
provoke
One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.
Synonyms:
affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, offend, tease, vex, woundAntonyms:
conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please
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arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provokeverb
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
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elevate, resurrect, force out, beset, send away, awake, levy, call forth, chivy, kick upstairs, give the sack, suggest, stimulate, lift, heighten, harry, upgrade, educe, dismiss, kick up, fire, leaven, chivvy, bring up, rouse, invoke, raise, wind up, recruit, inflame, chevvy, farm, extract, excite, grow, conjure, upraise, give the axe, prove, awaken, chevy, conjure up, conflagrate, molest, go off, displace, plague, wake, waken, turn on, enhance, give notice, terminate, fuel, arouse, wake up, can, sack, advance, perk up, stir, burn, burn down, put forward, sex, enkindle, evoke, rear, harass, draw out, set up, elicit, nurture, parent, energize, produce, erect, discharge, kindle, put up, promote, hassle, open fire, brace, energise, paint a picture, get up, call down, come aliveprovoke, evoke, call forth, kick upverb
evoke or provoke to appear or occur
"Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
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conjure, molest, extract, harry, suggest, kick up, beset, conjure up, hassle, bring up, chevy, chivy, invoke, paint a picture, stir, put forward, call down, harass, enkindle, arouse, call forth, evoke, kindle, educe, draw out, elicit, chevvy, chivvy, stimulate, plague, fire, raiseprovoke, stimulateverb
provide the needed stimulus for
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beset, kindle, excite, shake up, get, shake, chevvy, energize, perk up, harass, enkindle, hasten, stir, elicit, energise, chivy, make, fire, arouse, call forth, plague, cause, kick up, induce, raise, stimulate, have, harry, chivvy, brace, evoke, molest, chevy, rush, hassleharass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provokeverb
annoy continually or chronically
"He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
Synonyms:
stimulate, harry, kick up, beset, hassle, set upon, chevy, chivy, kindle, harass, arouse, enkindle, evoke, call forth, molest, elicit, incrust, encrust, chivvy, ravage, chevvy, plague, blight, fire, raise
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provokeverb
Synonyms:
excite, stimulate, arouse, awaken, incite, move, kindle, inflame, animate, instigate, impel, stir up, work upprovokeverb
Synonyms:
exasperate, incense, enrage, chafe, anger, irritate, exacerbate, nettle, offend, affront, infuriate, give offence or umbrage to, put out, put out of humor, work into a passion, lash into fury, raise one's ire, raise one's dander, make one's blood boil, drive one mad
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How to use provoke in a sentence?
We wanted to show the world that our intention is not to disrupt the country nor provoke any other parties that might be against our protest, to say that we could express ourselves yet not affect the freedom of movement for anyone.
I think the one thing that people forget is that at the end of the day, our failure to comply with NAFTA is going to result in the loss of more jobs here in America, there are consequences for this kind of action, and they tend to build upon each other and provoke more responses. Is that really the kind of path we want to go down?
If ISIS had hoped that their attacks in Paris would provoke the United States and its allies to react with small-minded panic, some governors are helping them get their wish.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney:
I don't think it is about race. I think it is about an individual who conducted himself in a manner that was almost guaranteed to provoke an officer trying to do his duty.
To innovate and move forward you must provoke the market for a response and respond to it.
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- استفز, يستفزArabic
- drážditCzech
- provozierenGerman
- provokiEsperanto
- provocarSpanish
- provoquerFrench
- भड़कानाHindi
- provokálHungarian
- להתגרותHebrew
- 憤慨, 立腹, 怒らせるJapanese
- 화나게 하다Korean
- prōvocōLatin
- raparapa, makitohene, mārehereheMāori
- uitlokkenDutch
- provosereNorwegian
- prowokowaćPolish
- provocar, irritarPortuguese
- рассердить, провоцировать, спровоцировать, сердитьRussian
- provoceraSwedish
- สะกิดThai
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