provoking
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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
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "provoking":
aggravating, agitating, alluring, annoying, ardent, bothering,
bothersome, breathtaking, burning, challenging, charged,
cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric,
emphatic, encouraging, energizing, enthusiastic, exasperating,
exciting, exhilarating, fervent, fiery, galling, galvanic,
galvanizing, glowing, harassing, harassment, heady,
heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling,
impassioned, importunate, importune, impressive, inflammatory,
interesting, intoxicating, inviting, irking, irksome, irritating,
jarring, jolting, juicy, lively, maddening, mind-blowing, moving,
overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate,
perturbing, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential,
piquant, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, prompting, provocation,
provocative, racy, ravishing, readable, rich, rousing,
soul-stirring, spicy, spirit-stirring, stimulant, stimulating,
stimulative, stirring, striking, succulent, suspenseful,
suspensive, tantalizing, teasing, telling, thought-challenging,
thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, thrilling, thrilly, tickling,
tiresome, titillating, tormenting, troublesome, troubling,
unsettling, upsetting, urgent, vehement, vexation, vexatious,
vexing, warm, wearisome, worrisome, worrying
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