provoked
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Provoked}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Provoking}.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call
forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice,
cry, call. See {Voice}.]
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.
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Obey his voice, provoke him not. --Ex. xxiii.
21.
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Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. --Eph.
vi. 4.
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Such acts
Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
To make death in us live. --Milton.
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Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? --Gray.
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To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it,
what it provokes in his own soul. -- J.
Burroughs.
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Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite;
anger. See {Irritate}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "provoked":
aggravated, amplified, angry, annoyed, augmented, bothered,
browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, deliberately provoked,
disturbed, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated,
exasperated, galled, griped, heated up, heightened, hotted up,
huffy, increased, intensified, irked, irritated, magnified, miffed,
nettled, peeved, piqued, put-out, resentful, riled, roiled,
ruffled, soured, troubled, vexed, worse, worsened
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