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provoke
(encz) | provoke,dráždit v: |
provoke
(encz) | provoke,hecovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
provoke
(encz) | provoke,provokovat v: |
provoke
(encz) | provoke,provokuje v: |
provoke
(encz) | provoke,vyvolat v: |
provoke
(encz) | provoke,vyvolávat v: |
Provoke
(gcide) | Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. i.
1. To cause provocation or anger.
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2. To appeal.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Dryden.
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Provoke
(gcide) | 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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provoke
(wn) | provoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse,
elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise,
provoke]
2: evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a
quarrel between the couple" [syn: provoke, evoke, {call
forth}, kick up]
3: provide the needed stimulus for [syn: provoke, stimulate]
4: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his
staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female
co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy,
chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest,
provoke] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
provoke
(encz) | provoke,dráždit v: provoke,hecovat v: Zdeněk Brožprovoke,provokovat v: provoke,provokuje v: provoke,vyvolat v: provoke,vyvolávat v: |
provoked
(encz) | provoked,provokovaný adj: Zdeněk Brožprovoked,vyprovokovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
provoker
(encz) | provoker, |
provokes
(encz) | provokes,provokuje v: Zdeněk Brož |
unprovoked
(encz) | unprovoked,nedokázaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Overprovoke
(gcide) | Overprovoke \O`ver*pro*voke"\, v. t.
To provoke excessively. --Bp. Hall.
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Provoked
(gcide) | 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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Provokement
(gcide) | Provokement \Pro*voke"ment\, n.
The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other
passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition.
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Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
--Shak.
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Unprovoked
(gcide) | Unprovoked \Unprovoked\
See provoked. |
provoke
(wn) | provoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse
pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse,
elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise,
provoke]
2: evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a
quarrel between the couple" [syn: provoke, evoke, {call
forth}, kick up]
3: provide the needed stimulus for [syn: provoke, stimulate]
4: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his
staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female
co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy,
chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest,
provoke] |
provoked
(wn) | provoked
adj 1: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated
by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the
child" [syn: aggravated, provoked] |
provoker
(wn) | provoker
n 1: someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the
instigator of their quarrel" [syn: instigator,
provoker, inciter, instigant, firebrand] |
unprovoked
(wn) | unprovoked
adj 1: occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless
malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"-
F.D.Roosevelt [syn: motiveless, unprovoked, wanton] |
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