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provoked

pro·voke
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [pruh-vohk]
    • /prəˈvoʊk/
    • /prəˈvəʊk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pruh-vohk]
    • /prəˈvoʊk/

Definitions of provoked word

  • verb with object provoked to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex. 1
  • verb with object provoked to stir up, arouse, or call forth (feelings, desires, or activity): The mishap provoked a hearty laugh. 1
  • verb with object provoked to incite or stimulate (a person, animal, etc.) to action. 1
  • verb with object provoked to give rise to, induce, or bring about: What could have provoked such an incident? 1
  • verb with object provoked Obsolete. to summon. 1
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Origin of provoked

First appearance:

before 1400
One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; late Middle English < Latin prōvocāre to call forth, challenge, provoke, equivalent to prō- pro-1 + vocāre to call; akin to vōx voice

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Parts of speech for Provoked

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Provoked

provoked popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for provoked

adj provoked

  • aflame — If something is on fire, you can say it is aflame.
  • angry — When you are angry, you feel strong dislike or impatience about something.
  • anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
  • bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
  • hopping mad — working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.

adv provoked

  • at odds — If someone is at odds with someone else, or if two people are at odds, they are disagreeing or quarrelling with each other.
  • at war — in a state of active armed conflict

verb provoked

  • acerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of acerbate.
  • acidified — Simple past tense and past participle of acidify.
  • awoke — Awoke is the past tense of awake.
  • confronted — Simple past tense and past participle of confront.
  • defied — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.

adjective provoked

  • activated — to make active; cause to function or act.
  • annoyed — If you are annoyed, you are fairly angry about something.
  • excited — awakened
  • goaded — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
  • incited — Simple past tense and past participle of incite.
All 43 Synonyms of provoked

Antonyms for provoked

verb provoked

  • allayed — to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
  • appeased — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
  • assuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
  • conciliated — to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over: to conciliate an angry competitor.
  • eased — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
All 13 Antonyms of provoked

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Related words

  • fire-eater

    an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.

  • irascible

    easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.

  • irate

    angry; enraged: an irate customer.

  • irritated

    angered, provoked, or annoyed.

  • nettlesome

    causing irritation, vexation, or annoyance: to cope with a nettlesome situation.

  • niobe

    the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss.
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