English > provoke: 4 senses > verb 1, emotion| Meaning | Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise |
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| Narrower | anger | make angry |
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| draw | elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. |
| excite | Arouse or elicit a feeling |
| hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite | hurt the feelings of |
| infatuate | Arouse unreasoning love / love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way |
| inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up | Arouse or excite feelings and passions |
| interest | excite the curiosity of |
| invite, ask for | increase the likelihood of |
| overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake | Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli |
| prick | To cause a sharp emotional pain |
| rekindle | Arouse again |
| shame | Cause to be ashamed |
| stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir | Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of |
| strike a chord, touch a chord | Evoke a reaction, response, or emotion |
| upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit | Cause to lose one's composure |
| Broader | make, create | make or cause to be or to become |
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| Spanish | causar, despertar, estimular, evocar, excitar, incitar, provocar, suscitar |
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| Catalan | causar, despertar, estimular, evocar, excitar, incitar, moure, suscitar |
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| Adjectives | provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
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| Nouns | provocation | something that incites or provokes |
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English > provoke: 4 senses > verb 2, creation| Meaning | Evoke or provoke to appear or occur. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Example | "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" |
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| Synonyms | evoke, call forth, kick up |
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| Narrower | pick | Provoke |
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| Broader | cause, do, make | give rise to |
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| Similar to | raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth | Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic |
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| Spanish | armar jaleo, causar, evocar, inspirar, ocasionar, provocar |
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| Catalan | causar, provocar |
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| Nouns | provocation | something that incites or provokes |
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English > provoke: 4 senses > verb 3, communication| Meaning | Provide the needed stimulus for. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
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| Model | They provoke him to write the letter |
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| Synonym | stimulate |
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| Narrower | agitate, foment, stir up | try to stir up public opinion |
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| entice, lure, tempt | Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion |
| incite, instigate, set off, stir up | Provoke or stir ... / stir up |
| jog | stimulate to remember |
| rejuvenate | Cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land |
| Broader | challenge | issue a challenge to |
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| Spanish | estimular, incentivar, provocar |
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| Catalan | estimular, incentivar, provocar |
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| Adjectives | provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
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| Nouns | provocation | needed encouragement |
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| provocation | something that incites or provokes |
English > provoke: 4 senses > verb 4, emotion| Meaning | annoy continually or chronically. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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| Model | The performance is likely to provoke Sue |
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| Synonyms | harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest |
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| Narrower | haze | harass by imposing / imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions |
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| needle, goad | goad or provoke,as by constant criticism |
| torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate | treat cruelly |
| Broader | annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil | Cause annoyance in |
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| Spanish | acosar sexualmente, acosar, aperrear, asediar, atosigar, causar, fastidiar, hostigar, molestar repetidamente, molestar, perseguir, plagar, provocar |
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| Catalan | atabuixar, causar, empaitar, fatigar, molestar |
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| Adjectives | provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
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| Nouns | provocation | unfriendly behavior that causes anger / anger or resentment |
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| provoker | someone who deliberately foments trouble |
