Provoke

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  • transitive verb. To incite to anger or resentment.
  • transitive verb. To stir to action or feeling.
  • transitive verb. To give rise to; bring about.
  • transitive verb. To bring about deliberately; induce.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To call forth or out; challenge; summon.
  • To stimulate to action; move; excite; arouse.
  • To call forth; cause; occasion; instigate.
  • To excite to anger or passion; exasperate; irritate; enrage.
  • Synonyms and To stir up, rouse, awake, induce, incite, impel, kindle.
  • Irritate, Incense, etc. (see exasperate), offend, anger, chafe, nettle, gall.
  • To appeal.
  • To produce anger or irritation. Compare provoking.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To cause provocation or anger.
  • intransitive verb. To appeal. [A Latinism]
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
  • verb. to bring about a reaction.
  • verb. To appeal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. annoy continually or chronically
  • verb. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  • verb. provide the needed stimulus for
  • verb. evoke or provoke to appear or occur
  • Word Usage
    "Let them, as far as I am concerned, but it may short term provoke more counterreaction."
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