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v. To incite to anger or resentment.

v. To stir to action or feeling.

v. To give rise to; evoke: provoke laughter.

v. To bring about deliberately; induce: provoke a fight.

v. to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

v. to bring about a reaction.

v. To appeal.

v. 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.

verb-intransitive. To cause provocation or anger.

verb-intransitive. To appeal. [A Latinism]

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.

v. annoy continually or chronically

v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

v. provide the needed stimulus for

v. 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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