meaning of provoke
1. 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.
2. To cause provocation or anger.
3. To appeal. [A Latinism]
4. provide the needed stimulus for
Related Words
provoke | provoked | provokement | provoker |
