provoke

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

   • Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
   • Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
2. 2

   To bring about a reaction.

   • To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
   • Thence Sish went forth into the world to destroy its cities, and to provoke his hours to assail all things, and to batter against them with the rust and with the dust.
   • An old traditional prescription for provoking erotic inclinations ran as follows, The toe of the foot of a man, anointed with oil, or honey, or the ashes of a weasel.
3. 3

   To appeal.

   • Even Arius and Pelagius durst provoke To what the centuries preceding spoke.

The neighborhood

• neighborevoke
• neighborinvoke
• neighborprovocateur
• neighborrevoke