Crossword clues for provoke
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. i.
To cause provocation or anger.
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To appeal.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.]
--Dryden.
Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Provoking.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice, cry, call. See Voice.] 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.
Obey his voice, provoke him not.
--Ex. xxiii.
21.
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
--Eph.
vi. 4.
Such acts
Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
To make death in us live.
--Milton.
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust?
--Gray.
To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. -- J. Burroughs.
Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite; anger. See Irritate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to cause someone to become annoyed or angry. 2 (context transitive English) to bring about a reaction.
WordNet
v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise]
call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" [syn: evoke, call forth, kick up]
provide the needed stimulus for [syn: stimulate]
annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest]
Wikipedia
Provoke is the third album of Dutch death metal band Altar. It was released in 1998 by Displeased Records.
Provoke (foaled 1962) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career which lasted from autumn 1964 until September 1965, he ran seven times and won four races. He won the Classic St Leger as a three-year-old in 1965, defeating Meadow Court by ten lengths. He was later exported to stand as a stallion in the Soviet Union.
Provoke (Purovōku, ), with its subtitle of Provocative Materials for Thought (Shisō no tame no chōhatsuteki shiryō ), was an experimental small press Japanese photography magazine founded by the collective of photographers Yutaka Takanashi and Takuma Nakahira, critic , and writer in 1968. Daidō Moriyama joined with the second issue. Provoke was "a platform for a new photographic expression", "to free photography from subservience to the language of words", "that stood in opposition to the photography establishment". It has been described as having "lasted for only three issues, but had a profound effect upon Japanese photography in the 1970s and 80s" and "spread a completely new idea of photography in Japan." It was a quarterly magazine that also included poetry, criticism and radical photographic theory.
Usage examples of "provoke".
George looked half asleep when his father made an allusion that threatened to provoke a reminiscence of his bygone days, and Laura had a perverse way of looking so coldly intent upon anything but Mr.
A tumultuous anarchy of five days was appeased by the inauguration of Ali: his refusal would have provoked a general massacre.
It is a more easy task to provoke the metaphysical disputes of the Greeks, to drive into the cloister the victims of anarchy or despotism, to sanctify the patience of slaves and cowards, or to assume the merit of the humanity and benevolence of modern Christians.
He had managed to annoy everyone, provoking his sister Yllana, his foster-sister Alanna, and Ida Davidson, who was usually impervious to the behavior of adolescents.
His apostasy provoked the indignation of the Latins, and no more than two bishops could be found who would impose their hands on his deacon and successor Pelagius.
Fearing that these changes would provoke a Royalist uprising, Barras persuaded Lazare to bring his troops close to Paris.
The same courage which obtains the esteem of a civilized enemy provokes the fury of a savage, and the impatient besieger had bound himself by a tremendous oath, that age, and sex, and dignity, should be confounded in a general massacre.
Their data are so explicable in many cases, and so inconclusive in all, that they quite naturally provoke deeper disbelief and produce telling retorts.
The experience of an abuse, from which our own age and country are not perfectly exempt, may sometimes provoke a generous indignation, and extort the hasty wish of exchanging our elaborate jurisprudence for the simple and summary decrees of a Turkish cadhi.
On the other hand, a cleft scrotum, an ill-developed penis, perhaps hypospadias or epispadias, rotundity of the mammae, and feminine contour have also provoked accounts of similar instances.
In the consulting-room Dr Mannet worked feverishly on his trousers and donned a white lab coat to cover the havoc Jessica had provoked.
He was not sensitive to miscomputations of his years, and felt disinclined to provoke further outbursts of family confidences.
The members of session were highly offended that any member of the church should have so far misregarded his pastor and provoked him to ire, and therefore ordered him to be cited to appear before them the following day.
And we, unlike the mollusk, can invite the disturbance that provokes us into art.
Wherefore we most heartily provoke, challenge, and defy your Lordship to the said combat and monomachy, and have sent these letters by the hand of our well beloved and royal brother Edmund, sometime King under us in Narnia, Duke of Lantern Waste and Count of the Western March, Knight of the Noble Order of the Table, to whom we have given full power of determining with your Lordship all the conditions of the said battle.