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Adjective provoking has 1 sense
- agitative, agitating, provoking - causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport"
Antonyms: unprovocative, unprovoking (indirect, via provocative)
Verb provoke has 4 senses
- arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
--1 is one way to make, create
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up - call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
--2 is one way to cause, do, make
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- provoke, stimulate - provide the needed stimulus for
--3 is one way to challenge
Sample sentence:
They provoke him to write the letter
- harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke - annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
--4 is one way to annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to provoke Sue
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