Dictionary Entry
provoke
provoke is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To cause provocation or anger.
- 3intransitive verb
To appeal. [A Latinism]
- 4verb
provide the needed stimulus for
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- 5verb
evoke or provoke to appear or occur
"Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
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- 6verb
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"arouse pity"
"raise a smile"
- 7verb
annoy continually or chronically
"He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"
"This man harasses his female co-workers"
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