Word: provokes
Category: provokes
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Synonyms: provokes
arouse, produce, evoke, cause, give rise to, occasion, call forth, elicit, induce, excite, spark off, touch off, kindle, generate, engender, instigate, result in, lead to, bring on, precipitate, prompt, trigger, beget, goad, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, inflame, work/fire up, impel, annoy, anger, incense, enrage, irritate, infuriate, exasperate, madden, nettle, get/take a rise out of, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, harass, harry, plague, molest, tease, taunt, torment, rub the wrong way, peeve, aggravate, hassle, miff, needle, rankle, ride, rile, get, bug, make someone's blood boil, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get/put someone's back up, get someone's goat, wind up, raise, fire, enkindle, kick up, chevy, beset, chivy, chivvy
Translations: provokes
The meaning and "use of": provokes
- stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone. - the decision provoked a storm of protest from civil rights organizations
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