All provoke antonyms

verb provoke

• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• humouring — humor.
• do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
• gloze — to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed by over).
• anesthetize — to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• mollify — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
• dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
• quell — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
• ironing — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
• compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
• hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• anaesthetised — anesthetize.
• downing — a downward movement; descent.