Synonym: aggravate, anger, annoy, antagonize, arouse, disturb, enrage, exasperate, excite, incense, infuriate, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pique, rile, ruffle, stir, taunt, vex. Antonym: appease. Similar words: invoke, approve, provide, province, improved, approval, provider, provided. Meaning: [prə'vəʊk] v. 1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) 2. evoke or provoke to appear or occur 3. provide the needed stimulus for 4. annoy continually or chronically.
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31. Paul tried unsuccessfully to provoke Fletch into a fight.
32. According to their localization, these deletions or duplications frequently provoke major respiratory chain function defects, with consequent cellular energy supply deficiencies.
33. I will further provoke him by saying that anchor-man is a most fitting name for his role in the relay team.
34. Such policies either ameliorate the worst conditions that might provoke violence or provide certain classes with advantages over classes below them.
35. The university authorities did not wish to provoke the students by forcibly removing the posters.
36. The effect is finally to provoke analysis rather than rapture or rationalization.sentencedict .com
37. Certainly the change in legislation is unlikely to provoke a sudden rush of hitherto tied farm workers from the industry.
38. They are a hell-broth of ideas to provoke coronaries and hair loss in middle-aged civil servants.
39. Although these various sources of other income provide substantial sums of money, they only occasionally provoke political controversy.
40. If pushed too hard at this critical moment he could impose emergency rule and provoke far greater strife.
41. He was trying to provoke her, deliberately goading her into saying more than she intended.
42. Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.
43. Let alone the content of the piece, the tsarist ring of the title was bound to provoke Soviet anger.
44. Information about local authority policy and arrangements is clearly intended to provoke public awareness and discussion of local education policy generally.
45. Neighbours arrive to talk to officialdom; they voice strong opposition but are careful not to provoke trouble.
46. This fear of fear will both provoke further symptoms as well as preventing the existing ones from diminishing naturally.
47. Tax deficient California's treatment of multinational firms threatens to provoke a global tax war.
48. What on earth had Hugh Puddephat done to provoke such passionate hatred in this well-mannered woman?
49. In acquiescing, the government was well aware that the final terms would provoke peasant hostility, and took suitable precautions.
50. Meanwhile, Stuart Barlow will provoke a confused reaction from family and friends in his first Merseyside derby on Monday night.
51. Its activities were well enough known to provoke widespread protest in the cahiers of 1789.
52. The Future Development of Auditing deserves to provoke a fundamental debate.
53. It was not an alien phenomenon and, as such, did not provoke an extreme response or demand extreme measures.
54. You talk about everything, don't care if you provoke people, there's no rules, it's very free-form.
55. But Gerard Brophy, a Sinn Fein councillor, said it was an attempt to provoke a reaction from young nationalists.
56. If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands.
57. I can only guess at what I have done to provoke her.
58. Spraying crops and burning stubble also provoke outcries from nearby residents.
59. Well, I don't fight, he beats me up - it's my fault, I provoke him.
60. To do this you must first provoke one of the game's head honchos into a challenge.