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provoked
(encz) | provoked,provokovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
provoked
(encz) | provoked,vyprovokovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
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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provoked
(wn) | provoked
adj 1: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated
by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the
child" [syn: aggravated, provoked] |
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provoked
(encz) | provoked,provokovaný adj: Zdeněk Brožprovoked,vyprovokovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unprovoked
(encz) | unprovoked,nedokázaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Unprovoked
(gcide) | Unprovoked \Unprovoked\
See provoked. |
provoked
(wn) | provoked
adj 1: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated
by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the
child" [syn: aggravated, provoked] |
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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