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.

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.

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]

verb. to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

verb. to bring about a reaction.

verb. To appeal.

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

"Let them, as far as I am concerned, but it may short term provoke more counterreaction."

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