pro·voke /prəˈvok/
(v.)挑舋,激怒,招惹,引起
pro·voke /prəˈvok/ 及物動詞
刺激,引起
Pro·voke, v. i.
1. To cause provocation or anger.
2. To appeal.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.]
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Pro·voke v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provoked p. pr. & vb. n. Provoking.] 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.
provoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse,
elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise]
2: call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the
couple" [syn: evoke, call forth, kick up]
3: provide the needed stimulus for [syn: stimulate]
4: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his
staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his
female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy,
chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest]