Provoke
Definition of Provoke
Pro`voke´ | v. t. | 1. | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To cause provocation or anger. | | 2. | To appeal. [A Latinism] |
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