Crossword clues for provoked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: provoke)
WordNet
adj. incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child" [syn: aggravated]
Wikipedia
Provoked is a 2006 British biographical drama film, directed by Jag Mundhra. It stars Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Nandita Das and Steve McFadden. The film is loosely based on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia who killed her abusive husband.
Cinematography for the film was handled by Madhu Ambat. The film's score and soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman, and the theme song for the film, Alive, was composed by Rahman and sung by Karen David, who has a small cameo in the film. Shot in London, the film was released theatrically in April 2007.
Provoked is the 15th live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released on April 1, 2008 as a CD/DVD combo on 2.13.61 Records. It was recorded in San Francisco, California on November 6, 2007 and Amsterdam, Netherlands on January 23, 2008 during his Provoked tour.
The DVD includes the Comedy Central special Live and Ripped From London, which was recorded May 17 & 18, 1999 and first aired August 11, 2000. A small portion of this special was included as a bonus track on Rollins' 2001 release, A Rollins In the Wry.
Provoked is the third studio album by American country music singer Sunny Sweeney. It was released on August 5, 2014 via Thirty Tigers/Aunt Daddy Records. The album includes the single "Bad Girl Phase," which was a Number One hit on the Texas Music Charts.
Usage examples of "provoked".
The despair of the citizens was sometimes converted into fury: and whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition, they extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless.
The pious horror of his antagonists provoked them to disclaim all sensual circumstances of conception and delivery.
And the rigid unity of the Monophysites, who, under the reigns of Zeno and Anastasius, had invaded the thrones of the East, provoked their antagonists, in a land of freedom, to avow a moral, rather than a physical, union of the two persons of Christ.
Philip the First, of France, supported with patience the censures which he had provoked by his scandalous life and adulterous marriage.
Their fury, provoked by a feeble opposition, discharged itself on the images of the Imperial family, which were erected, as objects of public veneration, in the most conspicuous places of the city.
His indignation against a rebel who had long eluded his pursuit, provoked him to wish and to pray, that, by the grace of God, he might drive three arrows into the head of Chrysochir.
Their zeal was insensibly provoked by the insulting triumph of a proscribed sect.
But the knowledge of their sentiments, instead of persuading him to recall his decree, provoked him to extend to all Egypt the term of the exile of Athanasius.
Athanaric was provoked, or compelled, to risk a battle, which he lost, in the plains.
The active policy of Valentinian was continually employed in adding new fortifications to the security of the frontier: but the abuse of this policy provoked the just resentment of the Barbarians.
The cruelty of Ithacius, ^59 who beheld the tortures, and solicited the death, of the heretics, provoked the just indignation of mankind.
She provoked the enmity of a favorite general, embraced his cause as soon as he was disgraced, created a new emperor in Syria and Egypt, ^* raised an army of seventy thousand men, and persisted to the last moment of her life in a fruitless rebellion, which, according to the fashion of the age, had been predicted by Christian hermits and Pagan magicians.
The dukes of the Lombards had provoked by frequent inroads their powerful neighbors of Gaul.
But the facility of the attempt, the repetition of the insult, and the obstinacy of the resistance, provoked him to swear, that if a third time he drove the infidels into the sea, he would render Alexandria as accessible on all sides as the house of a prostitute.
When he was produced a captive in the royal tent, the sultan, instead of praising his valor, severely reproached his obstinate folly: and the insolent replies of the rebel provoked a sentence, that he should be fastened to four stakes, and left to expire in that painful situation.