All provoke synonyms

verb provoke

• lead on — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
• bummed — depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
• innervate — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
• heat up — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
• occasion — a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
• gall — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
• buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
• nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
• mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
• displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
• impassion — to fill, or affect strongly, with intense feeling or passion; inflame; excite.
• flurry — a light, brief shower of snow.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
• insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
• give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
• curdled — Containing curds.
• fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
• ask for — to try to obtain by requesting
• fly in the face of — to move through the air using wings.
• offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• deviling — 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.
• dump on — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• exacerbate — Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
• discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
• dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
• ask for it — to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
• intoxicate — to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, especially to excite or stupefy with liquor.
• affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• infatuating — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
• give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• grate — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
• overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
• fussed — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
• get in one's hair — to annoy one
• jazzed — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
• goose — 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.
• chivy — to harass or nag
• acidify — to convert into or become acid
• incur — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
• awaken — To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling.
• hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
• meet with — to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter: I would meet him on the street at unexpected moments.
• arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
• carry away — to remove forcefully
• innervated — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
• needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
• buffalo — A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
• defy — If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.