All provoke synonyms

verb provoke

• blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
• ignite — to set on fire; kindle.
• birddog — one of any of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
• bring forth — to give birth to
• enthuse — Say something that expresses one's eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
• awake — Someone who is awake is not sleeping.
• dynamize — Give power or energy to; make dynamic.
• get a rise out of — 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.
• call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
• bedevil — If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
• leave no stone unturned — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
• madden — to anger or infuriate: The delays maddened her.
• whet — to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
• intensate — (transitive) To intensify.
• fire up — start ignition of
• hacking — a rack for drying food, as fish.
• get under one's skin — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
• curdling — Present participle of curdle.
• engender — Cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition).
• egged — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
• fascinate — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
• give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
• goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
• bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
• cut to the quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
• hatch — to mark with lines, especially closely set parallel lines, as for shading in drawing or engraving.
• abet — If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression 'aid and abet'.
• frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
• devilled — 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.
• instigate — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
• overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
• find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• incense — an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
• get to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• exasperate — Irritate intensely; infuriate.
• act upon — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
• egging — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
• fire — combustion
• bring on — If something brings on an illness, pain, or feeling, especially one that you often suffer from, it causes you to have it.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• give chase — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
• innervates — to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.