All provoke synonyms

verb provoke

• excite — Cause strong feelings of enthusiasm and eagerness in (someone).
• generate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
• innerve — to supply with nervous energy; invigorate; animate.
• fuddle — to muddle or confuse: a jumble of sounds to fuddle the senses.
• bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
• drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
• get someone's goat — to cause annoyance to someone
• hit on — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• exercise — training, homework
• electrify — Charge with electricity; pass an electric current through.
• outdare — to surpass in daring.
• make ready — the state or condition of being ready.
• do it — to engage in sexual intercourse
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
• deviled — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
• bestirred — to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively): She bestirred herself at the first light of morning.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• boning — Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
• elicit — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
• enrage — Make very angry.
• evoke — Bring or recall to the conscious mind.
• fan the flames — (Idiomatic) To intensify something; to worsen an already difficult situation or unfavourable set of circumstances.
• in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
• nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• induce — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
• mooted — open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: Whether that was the cause of their troubles is a moot point.
• add fuel to the fire — Used other than as an idiom: see add,‎ fuel,‎ fire.
• hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
• add insult to injury — to make an unfair or unacceptable situation even worse
• goosed — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
• impress — to press or force into public service, as sailors.
• get one's goat — any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
• commoving — Present participle of commove.
• make waves — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
• hunt down — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
• help out — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• winging — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
• make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
• infatuate — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• antagonize — If you antagonize someone, you make them feel angry or hostile towards you.
• hang in — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• fan — an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
• foment — to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.