PROVOKES meaning: Stimulates or incites a reaction

We found 13 dictionaries that define the word provokes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)

provokes: Merriam-Webster
provokes: Collins English Dictionary
provokes: Vocabulary.com
Provokes, provokes: Wordnik
provokes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
provokes: Wiktionary
provokes: Dictionary.com
provokes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
provokes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

provokes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
provokes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

provokes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

provokes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (provoke)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To appeal.
▸ Also see provoke

Opposite:

calms, soothes, relaxes, comforts

Types:

incites, stirs up, arouses, spurs on, more...

Phrases:

person who provokes others, something that provokes, one who provokes, opposite of provokes, more...

Adjectives:

more, other, first, next, last, inhuman, unkindness, such, general, trifling

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