Crossword-Solution: PROVOKE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Provoke | v. t. | 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. |
| Provoke | v. i. | To cause provocation or anger. |
| Provoke | v. i. | To appeal. [A Latinism] |
We have 68 clues for the answer “PROVOKE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| deliberately anger | 1 answer |
| Stimulate a reaction | 1 answer |
| Incite to anger | 3 answers |
| BRING upon oneself | 3 answers |
| Excite to action. | 3 answers |
| Get a rise out of? | 4 answers |
| Stir up trouble. | 7 answers |
| Incite to action. | 10 answers |
| Trigger | 13 answers |
| put about | 17 answers |
| AGGRESS | 17 answers |
| antagonize | 19 answers |
| innerve | 20 answers |
| innervate | 20 answers |
| impassion | 20 answers |
| Egg on | 21 answers |
| galvanize | 21 answers |
| APPLY electric current | 22 answers |
| Galvanise | 22 answers |
| exacerbate | 25 answers |
| make worse | 25 answers |
| Gig | 26 answers |
| CALL up spirit | 26 answers |
| BRING on | 27 answers |
| ASK (FOR) | 29 answers |
| Rub the wrong way | 29 answers |
| Butt (in) | 30 answers |
| beleaguer | 31 answers |
| Tantalise | 31 answers |
| call down | 33 answers |
| Chafe | 33 answers |
| Jeer | 34 answers |
| Fire (up) | 35 answers |
| Persecute | 35 answers |
| Coerce | 36 answers |
| startle | 37 answers |
| besiege | 37 answers |
| electroplate | 37 answers |
| agonise | 37 answers |
| Abrade | 38 answers |
| Peeve | 39 answers |
| Stir up | 41 answers |
| Nettle | 41 answers |
| Instigate | 45 answers |
| not improve matters | 46 answers |
| Perturb | 47 answers |
| Exasperate | 47 answers |
| Irk | 48 answers |
| Engender | 49 answers |
| Taunt | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PROVOKE (5)
Henceforth his might we know, and know our own So as not either to provoke, or dread New warr, provok’t; our better part remains To work in close design, by fraud or guile What force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
But when I thought of the innumerable dangers which surrounded us and the comparatively small amount of ammunition that I had with me, I hesitated to provoke a battle with Buckingham and his warriors when, by flight, I could avoid them and preserve my cartridges against emergencies which could not be escaped.
The circumstance was told him at Hartfield; for the moment, he was silent; but Emma heard him almost immediately afterwards say to himself, over a newspaper he held in his hand, “Hum! just the trifling, silly fellow I took him for.” She had half a mind to resent; but an instant’s observation convinced her that it was really said only to relieve his own feelings, and not meant to provoke; and therefore she let it pass.
Such conduct made them of course most exceedingly laughed at; but ridicule could not shame, and seemed hardly to provoke them.
Covey, I did, at times, purposely aim to provoke him to an attack, by refusing to keep with the other hands in the field, but I could never bully him to another battle.
Quotes with PROVOKE (3)
Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.
Anger is very deadly. It leads to intolerance and this causes depression. I have discovered people who are temperamental need help so they can overcome such challenges. Running away from challenges doesn't help but confronting the challenges. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. If you must learn how to control your anger, you must practice it by being around those who usually provoke you the most. How you respond to their provocation should be rated…
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument... and the occasional bar fight.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1954–2019).