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Provoke

//pɹəˈvoʊk// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause someone to become annoyed or angry. transitive

    "Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you."

  2. 2
    provide the needed stimulus for wordnet
  3. 3
    To bring about a reaction. transitive

    "To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul."

  4. 4
    evoke or provoke to appear or occur wordnet
  5. 5
    To appeal. obsolete

    "Even Arius and Pelagius durst provoke To what the centuries preceding spoke."

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  1. 6
    call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) wordnet
  2. 7
    annoy continually or chronically wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French provoquer, from Old French, from Latin prōvocāre. Doublet of provocate.

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