Word
Provoke
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
pro-voke
Definition
- v. t. - 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. - To cause provocation or anger.
- v. i. - To appeal. [A Latinism]
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