provoke
v.
anger, irritate, annoy; incite, instigate; stimulate, arouse; cause, induce, bring out
Provocation
A provocation is an act that causes a response.Provocation and provoke can refer to:
Provocation (legal), a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions.
Agent provocateur, a government agent in a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity.Provocation (medical), a way of medical testing for conditions such as an
allergy by provoking the immune system's response.Provocation study, a form of medical research using the above method
Provoke (album), a 1998 album by Altar and their final release on Displeased Records.
Provoked (film), a 2007 British film starring Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews.Provoked (music), Provoked is an MC from San Jose, California. He recently took his first step towards building his foundation, and put out his debut EP titled “The Listening Experience” which was released in May 2007. His idea is to get across his “common sense” messages through striving for clarity in his lyrics. He shares experiences from his past, and how they’ve had an impact on his life. He was influenced by many artists including Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Gang Starr, and Pep Love.
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provoke
Verb
1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
(synonym) arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise
(hypernym) make, create
(hyponym) strike a chord, touch a chord
(derivation) incitement, incitation, provocation
2. call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
(synonym) evoke, call forth, kick up
(hypernym) cause, do, make
(hyponym) pick
(verb-group) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
(derivation) incitement, incitation, provocation
3. provide the needed stimulus for
(synonym) stimulate
(hypernym) challenge
(hyponym) entice, lure, tempt
(derivation) incitement, incitation, provocation
4. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
(synonym) harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest
(hypernym) annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
(hyponym) needle, goad
(derivation) aggravation, irritation, provocation
Provoke
(v. t.)
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.
(v. i.)
To cause provocation or anger.
(v. i.)
To appeal. [A Latinism]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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aggravate
v. a.
1. make heavy (Met.)
بھاري کرنا , سنگين کرنا , سخت کرنا
2. make worse
زيادہ خراب کرنا , بڑھانا , زيادہ کرنا
3. provoke
بھڑکانا , جلانا , اشتعالک دينا , برافروختہ کرنا
to aggravate a crime
جرم کو سنگين کرنا يا بڑھانا