PROVOKE
Definition:
- [verb] call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise
- [verb] call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
Synonyms: evoke, call forth, kick up
- [verb] provide the needed stimulus for
Synonyms: stimulate
- [verb] annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
Synonyms: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest
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Related Words:
- strike a chord, touch a chord
- invite, ask for
- draw
- rekindle
- infatuate
- prick
- inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up
- stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
- excite
- anger
- upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
- shame
- hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
- overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
- interest
- pick
- entice, lure, tempt
- rejuvenate
- jog
- incite, instigate, set off, stir up
- agitate, foment, stir up
- needle, goad
- torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
- haze
