provoke : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: provoke	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for provoke
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
provoke v call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" Synonym(s): arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" Synonym(s): provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up provide the needed stimulus for Synonym(s): provoke, stimulate annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" Synonym(s): harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Provoke \Provoke"\, 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. i. 1. To cause provocation or anger. 2. To appeal. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Dryden.