Overprovoke

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To provoke excessively.

    "It grieves him [God], to be over-provoked to our punishment. Then doth he account the cart to crack, yea to break, when he is urged to break forth into just vengeance."

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"It grieves him [God], to be over-provoked to our punishment. Then doth he account the cart to crack, yea to break, when he is urged to break forth into just vengeance."

Etymology

From over- + provoke.

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