provoke
provoke is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 32 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi.
- 2.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. See Irritate.
- 3.To cause provocation or anger.
- 4.To appeal. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- add
- aggravate
- aggravating
- aggravation
- and
- bad
- deteriorate
- embitter
- enrage
- envenom
- exacerbate
- exacerbation
- exaggeration
- exasperate
- exasperation
- excite
- fan
- fire
- flame
- from
- frying
- fuel
- heighten
- into
- much
- out
- pan
- render
- sour
- tease
- the
- worse
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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