Definition of provoke in English:

provoke

verb prəˈvəʊkprəˈvoʊk

[with object]

1Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone.
刺激，导致（尤指强烈或令人不快的反应或情绪）
the decision provoked a storm of protest from civil rights organizations
这一决定挑起了民权组织的抗议浪潮。
Example sentencesExamples
- Pipes' presence on campus is provoking strong feelings among students and faculty on both sides of the issue.
- It is in the film to horrify and provoke an emotional reaction.
- In fact the commission's analysis of the state of British convergence with the eurozone was very mild, extremely careful and deliberately designed to avoid provoking a bust-up.
- The exhibit by internationally-renowned artist Jannis Kounellis has succeeded in provoking strong reactions
- Their request to do so was rejected, a rejection which provoked a strong reaction.
- In his debut novel he sets out to provoke strong reactions and, given his subject matter, doubtless he will succeed.
- Further, eyewitnesses suggest that the police are deliberately provoking violence.
- Genetic manipulation of food products provokes strong emotions whenever it is discussed.
- After all, a strong leader provokes a strong reaction.
- It is also counterproductive. Exerting pressure arouses mistrust and provokes fresh attacks from the Church's critics.
- Having provoked a strong reaction from most students at the college, a number of the posters have been taken down.
- The implementation of very strong environmental protection legislation in the USA provoked a strong backlash.
- Cromwell's name resonates down the centuries and provokes strong reactions to this day.
- Deconstructionism is one of the words that provokes a strong reaction from both sides.
- From a design point of view, something about their absolutely neutral formal character provokes strong reactions.
- The Sri Lankan army, which has inflicted widespread damage and constantly harasses local residents, recently killed several local youth, provoking angry protests.
- They wanted to see if they could provoke a strong reaction from me.
- The variability of the margin of appreciation has sometimes provoked strong reactions from judges frustrated by its imprecision.
- It's unfair to suggest that he deliberately provokes dressing room conflict, but he's not the ideal chap to apply soothing balm when it breaks out.
- The resignation that followed and the outrage provoked by the decision prompted an irrevocable split within the committee.
Synonyms
arouse, produce, evoke, cause, give rise to, occasion, call forth, draw forth, elicit, induce, inspire, excite, spark off, touch off, kindle, generate, engender, instigate, result in, lead to, bring on, contribute to, make for, foster, promote, breed, precipitate, prompt, trigger
literary beget, enkindle
1. 1.1 Stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them.
  鼓动，激励，刺激
  a teacher can provoke you into working harder
  老师能激励你更努力学习。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Quinn, her husband and her friends are in no doubt that Blunkett's hand was in the revelation, as part of a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save the relationship by provoking her husband to end the marriage.
  Anger over pay is already provoking many workers into action.
  That would mean if an intruder provoked you to violence, you would only be convicted if the intruder could prove that he or she was no threat.
  Whites smashed the windows in Holloway's home and threatened Coe's family, provoking him to put a gun in every room of his home.
  It said his name in a mocking way, provoking him to an anger that he dared not express in front of such a fiend.
  The anger lasted for a long time, trying to provoke her into saying things she would regret.
  Mike's rowdiness, his provoking his father to anger, was not the cause of his father's death, absolutely not.
  I view theatre as an institution that educates, stimulates, and provokes the audience - it makes them think and feel.
  We managed to provoke him to get up once, when he challenged Opposition members to substantiate their arguments.
  Secondly, we need a leader of charisma to badger and provoke his colleagues into action.
  Indeed, Maytag tried to tighten control further and force more concessions, provoking workers to the brink of a strike in 2002.
  I don't think of myself as a psychiatric case but I had to feel that Spider was provoking me to consider existential matters of the human condition.
  At one point, Kirie asks her father about his conversation with the aforementioned spiral fetishist, provoking him to indignantly accuse her of eavesdropping.
  The plight of Dr Saleh, an Iraqi Kurd, was first published in the Yorkshire Post more than a year ago, provoking residents in Keighley to write to their MP Ann Cryer.
  The power of his language is illustrated through performance, provoking the audience to re-assess Shakespeare and his plays.
  Maybe it was the winter flu crisis that educated the Prime Minister, provoking him to tell Sir David Frost, on the Sunday morning television sofa, that Britain would have to make a real change in the way it funded its health service.
  She is also comfortable following a traditional line with novels that do not seek to challenge or provoke the reader.
  Rather, they make her work harder to achieve it and they also provoke her to motivate other associates for the cause.
  There are times when you have to provoke people, challenge them to go further.
  You know that you are provoking me to say things.
  Synonyms
  goad, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, hound, badger, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, excite, inflame, work/fire up, impel, pressure, pressurize, prompt, induce, encourage, urge, inspire
2. 1.2 Deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry.
  故意激怒（某人）
  Rachel refused to be provoked
  雷切尔硬是没被激怒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He had deliberately provoked her, coaxed her into giving him the painful death he had coveted.
  The warning about conduct was meant to stop people deliberately provoking him.
  She provoked me, she taunted me, she said, I'm never going back to you, all those sorts of things.
  The same thing was continually provoking me: the manner in which men treated women.
  No longer did she feel like his blue eyes were challenging or provoking her.
  The police car backed off for safety reasons and to avoid provoking the truck's driver, RCMP said in a news release.
  She tried not show that Linda's slap had provoked her, as she fought an urge to rub her sore cheek.
  I am easily provoked, and rather vicious when my toe is stepped on, but I'm quick to cool down and fast to reasoning.
  She could get very dangerous when she was provoked and irritated, and the teenagers knew that.
  And Stine just kept right on provoking him with taunts and derision.
  So we don't want to do anything to provoke him or to incite the violence we're trying to prevent.
  Nathan was looking at her with a wild expression, the kind he got whenever she had deliberately provoked him.
  Sometimes applicants are deliberately provoked to see how they handle themselves.
  But he claimed he was provoked when the man threw an aerosol can at the group and then hit one of his friends with an 18 in rounders bat.
  He could see tears in her eyes, and it made him angry that Jeff was provoking her.
  Immediately, he begins relentlessly provoking the guards, acting from both the need to generate a story he can sell and his own antagonism towards authority.
  I couldn't see why anyone would wish to provoke me to the point of anger over not having a significant other.
  Many blame him for provoking conservative voters and contributing to John Kerry's defeat in the presidential election.
  Men of all ages simply kept their distance, though sometimes every now and then one would come and try to anger and provoke her.
  It is therefore forbidden to provoke a person, thereby causing him to sin in anger, even though it is not certain that he will do so.
  Synonyms
  annoy, make angry, anger, incense, enrage, send into a rage, irritate, infuriate, exasperate, exacerbate, madden, pique, nettle, get/take a rise out of, bother, upset, agitate, vex, irk, gall, get/put someone's back up, get on someone's nerves, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles, make someone's blood boil, rub up the wrong way, put someone out
  harass, harry, plague, molest
  tease, taunt, torment
  affront, insult, offend
  informal peeve, aggravate, hassle, miff, rile, needle, get, get to, bug, hack off, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get up someone's nose, get someone's goat, get across someone
  British informal get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, wind up, nark
  North American informal rankle, ride, gravel
  vulgar slang piss off
  British vulgar slang get on someone's tits
  annoying, irritating, exasperating, infuriating, provocative, maddening, goading, vexing, galling, affronting, insulting, offensive
  inflaming, inflammatory, incendiary, controversial
  informal aggravating, in-your-face
  rare instigative, agitative

Derivatives

provokable

adjective

We evaluated the sensitivity and safety of rapid atrial pacing combined with electrocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography for inducing and detecting provokable demand ischemia in 20 anesthetized patients with multivessel coronary artery disease.
Example sentencesExamples
- This led to the development of the "provokable nice guy" strategy, a peace-maker until attacked.

provoker

noun prəˈvəʊkəprəˈvoʊkər

But he was no foolish provoker of hostility and was content to pay up when the toll collectors arrived with weaponry.
Example sentencesExamples
- To a significant degree, the victim was an initiator, willing participant, aggressor, or provoker of the incident.
- That guy is a provoker, a really bad person, but the way I see it, the more I talk about it, the more he gets what he wants.
- As the family enacts various events or uses role play, the therapist may ask questions, direct interactions, or make comments, acting as a reporter, involved audience provoker, or director.
- The anxiety provokers - media, politicians, and arm chair generals - increase our level of fear, often for self-serving reasons.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense 'invoke, summon'): from Old French provoquer, from Latin provocare 'challenge', from pro- 'forth' + vocare 'to call'.

voice from Middle English:
A word derived from Latin vox ‘voice’ and is related to vocabulary (mid 16th century), vocal (Middle English), vocation (Late Middle English), and vociferous (early 17th century), while the verb vocare ‘to call’ appears in convoke (late 16th century) ‘call together’; equivocate (Late Middle English) literally ‘call by the same name’; evoke (early 17th century) ‘call out’; invoke (Late Middle English) ‘call upon’; provoke (Late Middle English) ‘call forth’; revoke (Late Middle English) ‘call back’; and vouch (Middle English) and voucher (early 16th century). Vowel (Middle English) is from Old French vouel, from Latin vocalis (littera) ‘vocal (letter)’. The Latin root survives in vox pop, ‘an informal survey of people's opinion’, which is short for Latin vox populi or ‘voice of the people’. When people refer to an ignored advocate of reform as a voice in the wilderness they are echoing the words of John the Baptist proclaiming the coming of the Messiah: ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’

Rhymes

awoke, bespoke, bloke, broke, choke, cloak, Coke, convoke, croak, evoke, folk, invoke, joke, Koch, moke, oak, okey-doke, poke, revoke, roque, smoke, soak, soke, spoke, stoke, stony-broke (US stone-broke), stroke, toke, toque, woke, yoke, yolk

Definition of provoke in US English:

provoke

verbprəˈvoʊkprəˈvōk

[with object]

1Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone.
刺激，导致（尤指强烈或令人不快的反应或情绪）
the decision provoked a storm of protest from civil rights organizations
这一决定挑起了民权组织的抗议浪潮。
Example sentencesExamples
- Cromwell's name resonates down the centuries and provokes strong reactions to this day.
- The exhibit by internationally-renowned artist Jannis Kounellis has succeeded in provoking strong reactions
- It's unfair to suggest that he deliberately provokes dressing room conflict, but he's not the ideal chap to apply soothing balm when it breaks out.
- The Sri Lankan army, which has inflicted widespread damage and constantly harasses local residents, recently killed several local youth, provoking angry protests.
- Having provoked a strong reaction from most students at the college, a number of the posters have been taken down.
- It is also counterproductive. Exerting pressure arouses mistrust and provokes fresh attacks from the Church's critics.
- In fact the commission's analysis of the state of British convergence with the eurozone was very mild, extremely careful and deliberately designed to avoid provoking a bust-up.
- After all, a strong leader provokes a strong reaction.
- Further, eyewitnesses suggest that the police are deliberately provoking violence.
- It is in the film to horrify and provoke an emotional reaction.
- Genetic manipulation of food products provokes strong emotions whenever it is discussed.
- Deconstructionism is one of the words that provokes a strong reaction from both sides.
- The implementation of very strong environmental protection legislation in the USA provoked a strong backlash.
- In his debut novel he sets out to provoke strong reactions and, given his subject matter, doubtless he will succeed.
- From a design point of view, something about their absolutely neutral formal character provokes strong reactions.
- Their request to do so was rejected, a rejection which provoked a strong reaction.
- The variability of the margin of appreciation has sometimes provoked strong reactions from judges frustrated by its imprecision.
- Pipes' presence on campus is provoking strong feelings among students and faculty on both sides of the issue.
- The resignation that followed and the outrage provoked by the decision prompted an irrevocable split within the committee.
- They wanted to see if they could provoke a strong reaction from me.
Synonyms
arouse, produce, evoke, cause, give rise to, occasion, call forth, draw forth, elicit, induce, inspire, excite, spark off, touch off, kindle, generate, engender, instigate, result in, lead to, bring on, contribute to, make for, foster, promote, breed, precipitate, prompt, trigger
1. 1.1 Stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them.
  鼓动，激励，刺激
  a teacher can provoke you into working harder
  老师能激励你更努力学习。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The anger lasted for a long time, trying to provoke her into saying things she would regret.
  Rather, they make her work harder to achieve it and they also provoke her to motivate other associates for the cause.
  The plight of Dr Saleh, an Iraqi Kurd, was first published in the Yorkshire Post more than a year ago, provoking residents in Keighley to write to their MP Ann Cryer.
  I don't think of myself as a psychiatric case but I had to feel that Spider was provoking me to consider existential matters of the human condition.
  That would mean if an intruder provoked you to violence, you would only be convicted if the intruder could prove that he or she was no threat.
  Secondly, we need a leader of charisma to badger and provoke his colleagues into action.
  Maybe it was the winter flu crisis that educated the Prime Minister, provoking him to tell Sir David Frost, on the Sunday morning television sofa, that Britain would have to make a real change in the way it funded its health service.
  At one point, Kirie asks her father about his conversation with the aforementioned spiral fetishist, provoking him to indignantly accuse her of eavesdropping.
  Quinn, her husband and her friends are in no doubt that Blunkett's hand was in the revelation, as part of a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save the relationship by provoking her husband to end the marriage.
  Mike's rowdiness, his provoking his father to anger, was not the cause of his father's death, absolutely not.
  She is also comfortable following a traditional line with novels that do not seek to challenge or provoke the reader.
  The power of his language is illustrated through performance, provoking the audience to re-assess Shakespeare and his plays.
  Anger over pay is already provoking many workers into action.
  I view theatre as an institution that educates, stimulates, and provokes the audience - it makes them think and feel.
  Whites smashed the windows in Holloway's home and threatened Coe's family, provoking him to put a gun in every room of his home.
  You know that you are provoking me to say things.
  Indeed, Maytag tried to tighten control further and force more concessions, provoking workers to the brink of a strike in 2002.
  It said his name in a mocking way, provoking him to an anger that he dared not express in front of such a fiend.
  We managed to provoke him to get up once, when he challenged Opposition members to substantiate their arguments.
  There are times when you have to provoke people, challenge them to go further.
  Synonyms
  goad, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, hound, badger, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, excite, inflame, fire up, work up, impel, pressure, pressurize, prompt, induce, encourage, urge, inspire
2. 1.2 Deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry.
  故意激怒（某人）
  Rachel refused to be provoked
  雷切尔硬是没被激怒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  No longer did she feel like his blue eyes were challenging or provoking her.
  She could get very dangerous when she was provoked and irritated, and the teenagers knew that.
  Sometimes applicants are deliberately provoked to see how they handle themselves.
  Immediately, he begins relentlessly provoking the guards, acting from both the need to generate a story he can sell and his own antagonism towards authority.
  Men of all ages simply kept their distance, though sometimes every now and then one would come and try to anger and provoke her.
  I am easily provoked, and rather vicious when my toe is stepped on, but I'm quick to cool down and fast to reasoning.
  And Stine just kept right on provoking him with taunts and derision.
  I couldn't see why anyone would wish to provoke me to the point of anger over not having a significant other.
  So we don't want to do anything to provoke him or to incite the violence we're trying to prevent.
  The same thing was continually provoking me: the manner in which men treated women.
  He had deliberately provoked her, coaxed her into giving him the painful death he had coveted.
  She provoked me, she taunted me, she said, I'm never going back to you, all those sorts of things.
  It is therefore forbidden to provoke a person, thereby causing him to sin in anger, even though it is not certain that he will do so.
  Nathan was looking at her with a wild expression, the kind he got whenever she had deliberately provoked him.
  The warning about conduct was meant to stop people deliberately provoking him.
  She tried not show that Linda's slap had provoked her, as she fought an urge to rub her sore cheek.
  Many blame him for provoking conservative voters and contributing to John Kerry's defeat in the presidential election.
  He could see tears in her eyes, and it made him angry that Jeff was provoking her.
  But he claimed he was provoked when the man threw an aerosol can at the group and then hit one of his friends with an 18 in rounders bat.
  The police car backed off for safety reasons and to avoid provoking the truck's driver, RCMP said in a news release.
  Synonyms
  annoy, make angry, anger, incense, enrage, send into a rage, irritate, infuriate, exasperate, exacerbate, madden, pique, nettle, get a rise out of, take a rise out of, bother, upset, agitate, vex, irk, gall, get someone's back up, put someone's back up, get on someone's nerves, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles, make someone's blood boil, rub up the wrong way, put someone out
  annoying, irritating, exasperating, infuriating, provocative, maddening, goading, vexing, galling, affronting, insulting, offensive

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘invoke, summon’): from Old French provoquer, from Latin provocare ‘challenge’, from pro- ‘forth’ + vocare ‘to call’.

单词	provoke
释义	Definition of provoke in English: provoke verb prəˈvəʊkprəˈvoʊk [with object] 1Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone. 刺激，导致（尤指强烈或令人不快的反应或情绪） the decision provoked a storm of protest from civil rights organizations 这一决定挑起了民权组织的抗议浪潮。 Example sentencesExamples Pipes' presence on campus is provoking strong feelings among students and faculty on both sides of the issue. It is in the film to horrify and provoke an emotional reaction. In fact the commission's analysis of the state of British convergence with the eurozone was very mild, extremely careful and deliberately designed to avoid provoking a bust-up. The exhibit by internationally-renowned artist Jannis Kounellis has succeeded in provoking strong reactions Their request to do so was rejected, a rejection which provoked a strong reaction. In his debut novel he sets out to provoke strong reactions and, given his subject matter, doubtless he will succeed. Further, eyewitnesses suggest that the police are deliberately provoking violence. Genetic manipulation of food products provokes strong emotions whenever it is discussed. After all, a strong leader provokes a strong reaction. It is also counterproductive. Exerting pressure arouses mistrust and provokes fresh attacks from the Church's critics. Having provoked a strong reaction from most students at the college, a number of the posters have been taken down. The implementation of very strong environmental protection legislation in the USA provoked a strong backlash. Cromwell's name resonates down the centuries and provokes strong reactions to this day. Deconstructionism is one of the words that provokes a strong reaction from both sides. From a design point of view, something about their absolutely neutral formal character provokes strong reactions. The Sri Lankan army, which has inflicted widespread damage and constantly harasses local residents, recently killed several local youth, provoking angry protests. They wanted to see if they could provoke a strong reaction from me. The variability of the margin of appreciation has sometimes provoked strong reactions from judges frustrated by its imprecision. It's unfair to suggest that he deliberately provokes dressing room conflict, but he's not the ideal chap to apply soothing balm when it breaks out. The resignation that followed and the outrage provoked by the decision prompted an irrevocable split within the committee. Synonyms arouse, produce, evoke, cause, give rise to, occasion, call forth, draw forth, elicit, induce, inspire, excite, spark off, touch off, kindle, generate, engender, instigate, result in, lead to, bring on, contribute to, make for, foster, promote, breed, precipitate, prompt, trigger literary beget, enkindle 1.1 Stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them. 鼓动，激励，刺激 a teacher can provoke you into working harder 老师能激励你更努力学习。 Example sentencesExamples Quinn, her husband and her friends are in no doubt that Blunkett's hand was in the revelation, as part of a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save the relationship by provoking her husband to end the marriage. Anger over pay is already provoking many workers into action. That would mean if an intruder provoked you to violence, you would only be convicted if the intruder could prove that he or she was no threat. Whites smashed the windows in Holloway's home and threatened Coe's family, provoking him to put a gun in every room of his home. It said his name in a mocking way, provoking him to an anger that he dared not express in front of such a fiend. The anger lasted for a long time, trying to provoke her into saying things she would regret. Mike's rowdiness, his provoking his father to anger, was not the cause of his father's death, absolutely not. I view theatre as an institution that educates, stimulates, and provokes the audience - it makes them think and feel. We managed to provoke him to get up once, when he challenged Opposition members to substantiate their arguments. Secondly, we need a leader of charisma to badger and provoke his colleagues into action. Indeed, Maytag tried to tighten control further and force more concessions, provoking workers to the brink of a strike in 2002. I don't think of myself as a psychiatric case but I had to feel that Spider was provoking me to consider existential matters of the human condition. At one point, Kirie asks her father about his conversation with the aforementioned spiral fetishist, provoking him to indignantly accuse her of eavesdropping. The plight of Dr Saleh, an Iraqi Kurd, was first published in the Yorkshire Post more than a year ago, provoking residents in Keighley to write to their MP Ann Cryer. The power of his language is illustrated through performance, provoking the audience to re-assess Shakespeare and his plays. Maybe it was the winter flu crisis that educated the Prime Minister, provoking him to tell Sir David Frost, on the Sunday morning television sofa, that Britain would have to make a real change in the way it funded its health service. She is also comfortable following a traditional line with novels that do not seek to challenge or provoke the reader. Rather, they make her work harder to achieve it and they also provoke her to motivate other associates for the cause. There are times when you have to provoke people, challenge them to go further. You know that you are provoking me to say things. Synonyms goad, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, hound, badger, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, excite, inflame, work/fire up, impel, pressure, pressurize, prompt, induce, encourage, urge, inspire 1.2 Deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry. 故意激怒（某人） Rachel refused to be provoked 雷切尔硬是没被激怒。 Example sentencesExamples He had deliberately provoked her, coaxed her into giving him the painful death he had coveted. The warning about conduct was meant to stop people deliberately provoking him. She provoked me, she taunted me, she said, I'm never going back to you, all those sorts of things. The same thing was continually provoking me: the manner in which men treated women. No longer did she feel like his blue eyes were challenging or provoking her. The police car backed off for safety reasons and to avoid provoking the truck's driver, RCMP said in a news release. She tried not show that Linda's slap had provoked her, as she fought an urge to rub her sore cheek. I am easily provoked, and rather vicious when my toe is stepped on, but I'm quick to cool down and fast to reasoning. She could get very dangerous when she was provoked and irritated, and the teenagers knew that. And Stine just kept right on provoking him with taunts and derision. So we don't want to do anything to provoke him or to incite the violence we're trying to prevent. Nathan was looking at her with a wild expression, the kind he got whenever she had deliberately provoked him. Sometimes applicants are deliberately provoked to see how they handle themselves. But he claimed he was provoked when the man threw an aerosol can at the group and then hit one of his friends with an 18 in rounders bat. He could see tears in her eyes, and it made him angry that Jeff was provoking her. Immediately, he begins relentlessly provoking the guards, acting from both the need to generate a story he can sell and his own antagonism towards authority. I couldn't see why anyone would wish to provoke me to the point of anger over not having a significant other. Many blame him for provoking conservative voters and contributing to John Kerry's defeat in the presidential election. Men of all ages simply kept their distance, though sometimes every now and then one would come and try to anger and provoke her. It is therefore forbidden to provoke a person, thereby causing him to sin in anger, even though it is not certain that he will do so. Synonyms annoy, make angry, anger, incense, enrage, send into a rage, irritate, infuriate, exasperate, exacerbate, madden, pique, nettle, get/take a rise out of, bother, upset, agitate, vex, irk, gall, get/put someone's back up, get on someone's nerves, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles, make someone's blood boil, rub up the wrong way, put someone out harass, harry, plague, molest tease, taunt, torment affront, insult, offend informal peeve, aggravate, hassle, miff, rile, needle, get, get to, bug, hack off, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get up someone's nose, get someone's goat, get across someone British informal get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, wind up, nark North American informal rankle, ride, gravel vulgar slang piss off British vulgar slang get on someone's tits annoying, irritating, exasperating, infuriating, provocative, maddening, goading, vexing, galling, affronting, insulting, offensive inflaming, inflammatory, incendiary, controversial informal aggravating, in-your-face rare instigative, agitative Derivatives provokable adjective We evaluated the sensitivity and safety of rapid atrial pacing combined with electrocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography for inducing and detecting provokable demand ischemia in 20 anesthetized patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. Example sentencesExamples This led to the development of the "provokable nice guy" strategy, a peace-maker until attacked. provoker noun prəˈvəʊkəprəˈvoʊkər But he was no foolish provoker of hostility and was content to pay up when the toll collectors arrived with weaponry. Example sentencesExamples To a significant degree, the victim was an initiator, willing participant, aggressor, or provoker of the incident. That guy is a provoker, a really bad person, but the way I see it, the more I talk about it, the more he gets what he wants. As the family enacts various events or uses role play, the therapist may ask questions, direct interactions, or make comments, acting as a reporter, involved audience provoker, or director. The anxiety provokers - media, politicians, and arm chair generals - increase our level of fear, often for self-serving reasons. Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense 'invoke, summon'): from Old French provoquer, from Latin provocare 'challenge', from pro- 'forth' + vocare 'to call'. voice from Middle English: A word derived from Latin vox ‘voice’ and is related to vocabulary (mid 16th century), vocal (Middle English), vocation (Late Middle English), and vociferous (early 17th century), while the verb vocare ‘to call’ appears in convoke (late 16th century) ‘call together’; equivocate (Late Middle English) literally ‘call by the same name’; evoke (early 17th century) ‘call out’; invoke (Late Middle English) ‘call upon’; provoke (Late Middle English) ‘call forth’; revoke (Late Middle English) ‘call back’; and vouch (Middle English) and voucher (early 16th century). Vowel (Middle English) is from Old French vouel, from Latin vocalis (littera) ‘vocal (letter)’. The Latin root survives in vox pop, ‘an informal survey of people's opinion’, which is short for Latin vox populi or ‘voice of the people’. When people refer to an ignored advocate of reform as a voice in the wilderness they are echoing the words of John the Baptist proclaiming the coming of the Messiah: ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ Rhymes awoke, bespoke, bloke, broke, choke, cloak, Coke, convoke, croak, evoke, folk, invoke, joke, Koch, moke, oak, okey-doke, poke, revoke, roque, smoke, soak, soke, spoke, stoke, stony-broke (US stone-broke), stroke, toke, toque, woke, yoke, yolk Definition of provoke in US English: provoke verbprəˈvoʊkprəˈvōk [with object] 1Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone. 刺激，导致（尤指强烈或令人不快的反应或情绪） the decision provoked a storm of protest from civil rights organizations 这一决定挑起了民权组织的抗议浪潮。 Example sentencesExamples Cromwell's name resonates down the centuries and provokes strong reactions to this day. The exhibit by internationally-renowned artist Jannis Kounellis has succeeded in provoking strong reactions It's unfair to suggest that he deliberately provokes dressing room conflict, but he's not the ideal chap to apply soothing balm when it breaks out. The Sri Lankan army, which has inflicted widespread damage and constantly harasses local residents, recently killed several local youth, provoking angry protests. Having provoked a strong reaction from most students at the college, a number of the posters have been taken down. It is also counterproductive. Exerting pressure arouses mistrust and provokes fresh attacks from the Church's critics. In fact the commission's analysis of the state of British convergence with the eurozone was very mild, extremely careful and deliberately designed to avoid provoking a bust-up. After all, a strong leader provokes a strong reaction. Further, eyewitnesses suggest that the police are deliberately provoking violence. It is in the film to horrify and provoke an emotional reaction. Genetic manipulation of food products provokes strong emotions whenever it is discussed. Deconstructionism is one of the words that provokes a strong reaction from both sides. The implementation of very strong environmental protection legislation in the USA provoked a strong backlash. In his debut novel he sets out to provoke strong reactions and, given his subject matter, doubtless he will succeed. From a design point of view, something about their absolutely neutral formal character provokes strong reactions. Their request to do so was rejected, a rejection which provoked a strong reaction. The variability of the margin of appreciation has sometimes provoked strong reactions from judges frustrated by its imprecision. Pipes' presence on campus is provoking strong feelings among students and faculty on both sides of the issue. The resignation that followed and the outrage provoked by the decision prompted an irrevocable split within the committee. They wanted to see if they could provoke a strong reaction from me. Synonyms arouse, produce, evoke, cause, give rise to, occasion, call forth, draw forth, elicit, induce, inspire, excite, spark off, touch off, kindle, generate, engender, instigate, result in, lead to, bring on, contribute to, make for, foster, promote, breed, precipitate, prompt, trigger 1.1 Stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them. 鼓动，激励，刺激 a teacher can provoke you into working harder 老师能激励你更努力学习。 Example sentencesExamples The anger lasted for a long time, trying to provoke her into saying things she would regret. Rather, they make her work harder to achieve it and they also provoke her to motivate other associates for the cause. The plight of Dr Saleh, an Iraqi Kurd, was first published in the Yorkshire Post more than a year ago, provoking residents in Keighley to write to their MP Ann Cryer. I don't think of myself as a psychiatric case but I had to feel that Spider was provoking me to consider existential matters of the human condition. That would mean if an intruder provoked you to violence, you would only be convicted if the intruder could prove that he or she was no threat. Secondly, we need a leader of charisma to badger and provoke his colleagues into action. Maybe it was the winter flu crisis that educated the Prime Minister, provoking him to tell Sir David Frost, on the Sunday morning television sofa, that Britain would have to make a real change in the way it funded its health service. At one point, Kirie asks her father about his conversation with the aforementioned spiral fetishist, provoking him to indignantly accuse her of eavesdropping. Quinn, her husband and her friends are in no doubt that Blunkett's hand was in the revelation, as part of a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save the relationship by provoking her husband to end the marriage. Mike's rowdiness, his provoking his father to anger, was not the cause of his father's death, absolutely not. She is also comfortable following a traditional line with novels that do not seek to challenge or provoke the reader. The power of his language is illustrated through performance, provoking the audience to re-assess Shakespeare and his plays. Anger over pay is already provoking many workers into action. I view theatre as an institution that educates, stimulates, and provokes the audience - it makes them think and feel. Whites smashed the windows in Holloway's home and threatened Coe's family, provoking him to put a gun in every room of his home. You know that you are provoking me to say things. Indeed, Maytag tried to tighten control further and force more concessions, provoking workers to the brink of a strike in 2002. It said his name in a mocking way, provoking him to an anger that he dared not express in front of such a fiend. We managed to provoke him to get up once, when he challenged Opposition members to substantiate their arguments. There are times when you have to provoke people, challenge them to go further. Synonyms goad, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, hound, badger, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, excite, inflame, fire up, work up, impel, pressure, pressurize, prompt, induce, encourage, urge, inspire 1.2 Deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry. 故意激怒（某人） Rachel refused to be provoked 雷切尔硬是没被激怒。 Example sentencesExamples No longer did she feel like his blue eyes were challenging or provoking her. She could get very dangerous when she was provoked and irritated, and the teenagers knew that. Sometimes applicants are deliberately provoked to see how they handle themselves. Immediately, he begins relentlessly provoking the guards, acting from both the need to generate a story he can sell and his own antagonism towards authority. Men of all ages simply kept their distance, though sometimes every now and then one would come and try to anger and provoke her. I am easily provoked, and rather vicious when my toe is stepped on, but I'm quick to cool down and fast to reasoning. And Stine just kept right on provoking him with taunts and derision. I couldn't see why anyone would wish to provoke me to the point of anger over not having a significant other. So we don't want to do anything to provoke him or to incite the violence we're trying to prevent. The same thing was continually provoking me: the manner in which men treated women. He had deliberately provoked her, coaxed her into giving him the painful death he had coveted. She provoked me, she taunted me, she said, I'm never going back to you, all those sorts of things. It is therefore forbidden to provoke a person, thereby causing him to sin in anger, even though it is not certain that he will do so. Nathan was looking at her with a wild expression, the kind he got whenever she had deliberately provoked him. The warning about conduct was meant to stop people deliberately provoking him. She tried not show that Linda's slap had provoked her, as she fought an urge to rub her sore cheek. Many blame him for provoking conservative voters and contributing to John Kerry's defeat in the presidential election. He could see tears in her eyes, and it made him angry that Jeff was provoking her. But he claimed he was provoked when the man threw an aerosol can at the group and then hit one of his friends with an 18 in rounders bat. The police car backed off for safety reasons and to avoid provoking the truck's driver, RCMP said in a news release. Synonyms annoy, make angry, anger, incense, enrage, send into a rage, irritate, infuriate, exasperate, exacerbate, madden, pique, nettle, get a rise out of, take a rise out of, bother, upset, agitate, vex, irk, gall, get someone's back up, put someone's back up, get on someone's nerves, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles, make someone's blood boil, rub up the wrong way, put someone out annoying, irritating, exasperating, infuriating, provocative, maddening, goading, vexing, galling, affronting, insulting, offensive Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘invoke, summon’): from Old French provoquer, from Latin provocare ‘challenge’, from pro- ‘forth’ + vocare ‘to call’.
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