Provoke vs. Provocate — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Provoke or Provocate
How to spell Provoke?
Provoke
Correct Spelling
Provocate
Incorrect Spelling
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Provoke Definitions
To incite to anger or resentment
Taunts that provoked their rivals.
To stir to action or feeling
A remark that provoked me to reconsider.
To give rise to; bring about
A miscue that provoked laughter.
News that provoked an uproar.
To bring about deliberately; induce
Provoke a fight.
(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
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(transitive) To bring about a reaction.
(obsolete) To appeal.
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.
Obey his voice, provoke him not.
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
Such actsOf contumacy will provoke the HighestTo make death in us live.
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust?
To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
To cause provocation or anger.
To appeal. [A Latinism]
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
Arouse pity
Raise a smile
Evoke sympathy
Call forth;
Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
Provide the needed stimulus for
Annoy continually or chronically;
He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
This man harasses his female co-workers
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