provoke

Definition of provoke in English English dictionary: to bring about a reaction; to cause (a person) to become annoyed or angry
Don't provoke the dog, it may try to bite you.; {v} to rouse, enrage, vex, challenge; To annoy someone and make the person angry; annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"; If something provokes a reaction, it causes it. His election success has provoked a shocked reaction; If you provoke someone, you deliberately annoy them and try to make them behave aggressively. He started beating me when I was about fifteen but I didn't do anything to provoke him I provoked him into doing something really stupid; call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"; provide the needed stimulus for; To cause provocation or anger; To challenge; to summon; to stimulate to action; to induce by motive; to call forth; 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; [A Latinism] provide the needed stimulus for call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple; To call forth; to call into being or action; esp; To appeal; call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"; Look at your opponent's hand If he or she has a Baby Pokémon and/or Basic Pokémon there, you may put any number of them on your opponent's Bench (as long as there's room) Then your opponent looks at your hand If you have any Baby Pokémon and/or Basic Pokémon there, your opponent may put any number of them on your bench (as long as there's room) Pokémon with this Power: Dark Ursaring; To cause (a person) to become angry; {f} anger, irritate, annoy; incite, instigate; stimulate, arouse; cause, induce, bring out
provoke a reaction: cause a response
provoked: Simple past tense and past participle of provoke
to provoke: instigate
provoking: {a} exciting or tending to excite wrath
provokingly: {a} so as to raise anger, crossly
to provoke: provocate
provoked: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child"
provoked: past of provoke
provokes: third-person singular of provoke
provoking: Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment
provoking: present participle of provoke
provoking: {s} angering, irritating, annoying; inciting, instigating; stimulating, arousing
provoking: causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport"
provokingly: In a provoking manner
provokingly: irritatingly, annoyingly, vexatiously, exasperatingly; through instigation, by incitement, through stimulation

Turkish - English

Definition of provoke in Turkish English dictionary
provoke etmek: to provoke
provoke eden: tantaliser
provoke ederek: tantalisingly
provoke edici: provocating
provoke edilmiş: tantalised

provoke

Hyphenation

pro·voke

Turkish pronunciation

prıvōk

Synonyms

bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip up, abet

Antonyms

delight, make happy, please, end, halt, prevent, stop

Pronunciation

/prəˈvōk/ /prəˈvoʊk/

Etymology

[ pr&-'vOk ] (transitive verb.) 14th century. Middle English, from Middle French provoquer, from Latin provocare, from pro- forth + vocare to call, from voc-, vox voice; more at PRO-, VOICE.