Provoke
Antonyms of PROVOKE
- placate, counter, hinder, frustrate, alleviate, tame, deter, hurt, prevent, lose, end, lull, mollify, ignore, obstruct, delight, gladden, weaken, assuage, compliment, curb, put out, soften, bridle, rein, disenchant, forbear, quiet, soothe, settle, hold, deaden, impede, stop, inhibit, constrain, please, honor, appease, discourage, regulate, gratify, demote, comfort, check, bore, depress, satisfy, calm, ruin, destroy, pacify, resist, help, make happy, halt, content, dishearten, aid, restrain, wait, dissuade, dull, fail.
Synonyms of PROVOKE
- zinging, puts forward, churn up, irritate, go off, PREPS, boil over, goosing, spite, start something, buffaloed, raw, inform, enrage, be responsible for, raise up, led on, exhort, exhilarate, augment, slap the face, dump on, enraged, seductive, confront, sore, overawed, give one an idea, stirred up, rub salt in a wound, nervous, feed, curdling, activate, fly in face of, heated, win over, make my day, invite, distress, call up, excitement, leavening, whet, dog, have, dare, upbraid, stand to, make splash, be on one's back, take out on, hector, rowels, Ragging, get in one's hair, Nettles, get going, make ready, asked for, burned up, heat, set against, enthusing, railroaded, breed, be on one's tail, pit against, produce, spitball, interested, think up, estrange, spurn, kick up, amplify, Intensate, pick, occasion, push over, acted upon, track down, inspired, go over, get*, sour, set upon, prevail on, entail, heckling, called out, rile, give a bad time, put on the spot, put down*, Deviled, make blood boil, uplight, encrust, Rowelled, be worthy of, upgrade, transport, give impetus, rekindle, resonate, displace, makes waves, set*, mess with, cramp style, simmer, rise out of, chivy, resulting in, fire, put through wringer, bother, get a rise out of, thought up, Shepherding, inspires, worked on, grate, disaffect, get things rolling, rowel, leading to, seethe, ravage, waked up, cajole, assert, give birth to, have over, lash, appeal to, capture, answer back, past bearing, Fash, bullyrag, magnetize, intoxicate, chagrin, prepping, set fire to, entice, feeling, pile out, squaring off, draw out, catapult, enthuses, coax, zipped up, Fussed, bring to one's feet, thrust, raise hackles, getting to, enhance, reawaken, push one's buttons, heating, rub salt in the wound, bring down on, get under skin, include as guest, alert, swamp, get someone's goat, ram, act upon, extorts, meet face to face, heats up, start the ball rolling, galvanise, trump up, calls out, turned out, start, stick it out, slap in the face, work upon, awake, invigorate, bird dog, lay eggs, surreptitiously, clandestinely, slander, titillate, condone, get goat, facilitate, feelings, perturb, engineer, punch, fuddles, abet, infatuates, Henpeck, nibble, grieve, do it, over-burden, unendurable, boil, stir up trouble, set, build up, get smoking, give umbrage, tear out, rip out, try one's patience, make an impression, yap at, send invitation, Moiling, make waves, make uneasy, fuel, oblige, torment, hanging in, ignited, stimulus, Bestirring, Rowelling, turn on, molest, set in motion, heckle, beseech, defy, infect, hang up, precipitate, catch fire, hurtle, re-claim, alluring, instill, catch, Fronting, made ready, interest, expose oneself to, work on, acerbate, add insult to injury, sustain, sow seeds, take one's breath away, carp, hasten, Buffaloes, rivets, sling, Sired, bull's eye, affect the interest, ask for it, break, livid, start off, square off, convince, Fretting, Innerve, exercise, Rallied, exasperatingly, put to, sets in motion, aggrieve, engross, annoyingly, tee off, tire, knock chip off shoulder, induce, tease, enforce, be conspicuous, switch on, challenge, met with, bully, inspire, embitter, goad, court, standing to, fan the flame, coerce, prevail upon, Hacking, rattle, sicced, start ball rolling, Impassion, order, ride, dissatisfy, deepen, Repulsing, give, give a hard time, gall, berate, drive up the wall, set on fire, attract, object to, gives birth to, search high heaven, push, advocate, feed the fire, make trouble, aggravate, invoke, throw into tizzy, vitalize, hit where one lives, set off, Chivying, gravel, Ridiculed, put forward, irresistible, dynamize, light up, wheedle, stuck fast, extort, step over the line, turned inside out, insist upon, plague, draw down, meet with, roll out, cause, blistered, encounter, spark, make see red, prick, setting in motion, can, e, talk back, terminate, drawing, annoy, initiate, stimulate, piss off, Hacked, rag, wound, called forth, burn, procure, Egging, giving rise to, stirs up, play cat and mouse, calling forth, Spawned, promotes, bristle, motivate, miff, step on one's toes, IRED, give the axe, expose to, take breath away, wake up, stew, make worse, overawes, foot, pressurize, Bumming, tempt, poke, beg, carry away, pick at, Gnawing, stealthily, cross, take it out on, evince, search out, disconcert, suggest, drive bananas, throw down gauntlet, pluck, got to, overwhelm, be subjected to, bum out, bring, needle, devastating, disunite, sneakily, speed, in spirits, seek, affront, switching on, concerned, turn upside down, intolerable, rub, gall*, rant, work into lather, peck, boiling over, begin, leaning on, honied, bait, sass, triggering, bear, originates, fret, offend, agitated, levy, make a stand, animated, dominate, affect, scold, spread, force, originate, making for, encourage, frenzying, open fire, Dispraised, force out, ticked off, set afoot, enliven, parenting, fling, overwhelmed, pother, be disagreeable, decide, sharpen, lose temper, rolled out, rub one the wrong way, clean, impeded, toffs, prepped, egg on, inconvenience, Riveted, result in, overawe, give back, henpecked, disgust, nag at, drive someone mad, anger, exposed to, push one's button, paint a picture, abrade, hatch, be at, ruffle, pitch, lead to, push button, leave no stone unturned, get, Overexcite, repel, put, blow away, hot up, Plaguing, chaff, raise ire, unbearable, dumped on, bring about, insist, bug, piece, get under one's skin, accelerate, influence, further, in flames, injure, set afire, support, drive, jolting, sow dissension, pick on, lob, upraise, is responsible for, conflagrate, outrage, incite, t-off, blow up, come alive, prime, cultivate, tick off, excite, gripe, rag on, distemper, Bestirred, rankle, elicit, steamroll, face, counterpoint, started off, huff, ferment, trigger, intrigue, enkindle, kick start, strike, harass, powered, give invitation, tender, drive to distraction, displease, pushing around, chevy, spur, sack, educe, resuscitate, frothing, send away, infuriate, foment, turning inside out, recruit, touching off, lead, torture, give the needle, get on one's nerves, gives rise to, wigging, put in motion, nurture, ridden, absorb, searched out, work, hinders, jerk, throw together, effect, back, grate on, dispraise, moots, bestirs, goosed, fan the flames, teen, bring on, nettle, shoot, bedevil, switched on, humiliate, protrude, perk up, persecute, sicked, compel, turn one off, envenom, gave birth to, spitballs, get at, get one's goat, discompose, buffalo, Urged, execute, railroading, Mooting, revive, delightful, intensify, badger, divide, jog memory, get on someone, drive mad, require, play dirty, cross swards, concern, get steamed up, Siring, captivate, abuse, stir embers, show a leg, mousetraps, spur on, wild, nudge, sanction, toff, imposes upon, disrupt, institute, advance, cut to the quick, prep, warm, nag, miffed, horrify, grating, disconcerting, froth, terrorize, hurt feelings, makes up, steamed up, throw down the gauntlet, rattle one's cage, demand, egg, extract, push forward, brace, galling, prove, hurting, insult, forward, grit, rally, erect, sparkle, up set, making ready, crazy, still, ire, setting off, come between, interesting, tickle, rouse, woke up, jostle, energize, agent provocateur, Shepherded, face off, remind, assist, PSYCH, put up to, blew away, dismiss, fascinate, hack, drive crazy, foster, sticks out, pique, move, upset the apple cart, criticize, drive out of mind, enamor, irritation, tantalise, bring down, needling, set alight, electrify, interrupt, throw, worsen, go down, farm, adjy, intoxicates, incrust, set on edge, fluster, raising hell, throw up, goose, nudzh, heated up, hurl, congest, vivify, aberration, cut, get on nerves, intriguing, blight, command, gets to, stir up, separate, spirit up, fires up, actuate, light, got going, lean on, produces, searching out, give the cold shoulder, Enchafe, draw forth, send, unbalancing, under-estimates, insufferable, urge, chivvy, lip, infuse, gets one's goat, restore, call upon, give the sack, beguiling, give offense, Roweled, entertaining, ignite, secretly, sow the seeds, working on, turn one's head, work up, Outdare, drive insane, talk into, titivate, scratch around, Suscitate, slight, stirring up, insupportable, snub, boned, Commoving, inspirit, test, lose one's temper, set on, resurrect, Chivied, wind-up, be violent, be at the bottom of, stood up to, guy, pester, enticing, fizzing, try, laughed at, create, call forth, rib, eaten, innervate, shake up, call, impress, imposed upon, conjure, sorrow, merit, find fault with, umbrage, help out, amusing, upset, jogging, resulted in, get back, rub salt in wound, over-wrought, leave, take one on, rousing, Innerved, harry, hang in, agitate, tantalize, rend, enthuse, Winging, devil, Sneered, grief, signboard, wire, persuade, intimidate, twit, do to, peeve, thrill, curious, ask for trouble, make, chafe, zip up, pressure, launch, painful, bestir, steam up, flurry, give incentive, exhilarating, lift, bug*, engage, led to, hunt down, intrude, putting spot, hassle, kick upstairs, Fuddling, leads to, draw, set astir, squared off, arouse, turn inside out, Devilled, Boning, fan, attractive, turned upside down, endorse, give a zinger, make mouth water, give notice, taunt, rip off, oppress, resentment, invite competition, provocatively, gave rise to, disgruntle, obtain, Devilling, stoke, rave, request, get to, animate, heave, get in hair, cheese off, burn down, invited, waking up, have in, operate, fuddle, call down, make for, incense, helped out, ask for, touch off, Deviling, muster courage, stir, give chase, infatuate, slap in face, push around, find fault, disappoint, twist the knife, Egged, draw on, upset apple cart, Mads, entreat, appealed to, hurl defiance at, Roweling, Infatuating, cull, prompt, lead on, carp at, summon up, Superinduce, scandalize, rasp, bring upon, beset, muster up, wig, irk, waken, Madded, evoke, keyed up, uplights, vex, raise, sending, set at odds, Trancing, act, propel, disturb, mesmerize, carried away, promote, renew, chevvy, be on the back of, take out after, argue into, beleaguer, beak, shove, make one hot under the collar, gnaw, heat up, curdled, smite, contrive, incur, embarrass, fuddled, jazz up, Imprest, roil, rivet, Appetize, whip up, rise, set up, make acute, blow the coals, do something about it, sauce, bring up, alienate, triggers, bump, blame, tyrannize, generate, touch, parent, hurry, key up, increase, ask, impose upon, Overawing, bruised, lays eggs, covertly, fan the fire, prod, knock, awaken, steaming up, give birth, turn off, involve, eat, make a point of, interfere, expedite, sticking fast, giving birth, inflame, commove, Dispraising, be on one's case, juicing, bum*, craze*, go from bad to worse, jar, call out, Distempered, leaven, hop up, bringing forth, agitating, give rise to, wear on, energise, discomfit, raise hell, tickle pink, Innerving, parented, burning up, Roust, fly in the face of, picking, sting, woken, conjure up, knock the chip off one's shoulder, wake, poster, move upwards, heighten, tear off, invite to debate, magnify, meet, discomposed, worry, shock, gooses, discharge, engender, quicken, fillip, push on, Fussing, eating, hit on, Importune, getting going, exasperate, breach, enlarge, wigged, overwhelming, tempting, trouble, mousetrap, stick fast, overpowering, get someone, deteriorate, spark off, psyching, impel, allure, Honeying, Frothed, hound, Bummed, stand up to, face down, jog, be set, leads on, maddeningly, fester, elevate, irritates, overburdened, sicking, intrude upon, put down, galvanize, come with, grow, make a hit, railroad, Mooted, bring forth, evoked, drove to distraction, psychs, dispraises, pain, kindle, translate, instigate, madden, occasions, furtively, nourish, make sore, Grand-stand, Discontenting, SICS, provoke, plunk, involve in, brown off, provokingly, redound, Promoted, play up to, get mad, powering, Rubbed, exalt, Distempering, press, summon, fire up, turning on, exciting, burn up, warrant, sic, irritatingly, incentive, exacerbate, antagonize, juiced, jolt.
Examples of usage:
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Then he tried being angry with her himself; he was sometimes unjust to her consciously and of a purpose, in order to provoke her into defending herself, and appealing against his unkindness. "Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Moreover, they do not imply or provoke on the part of the ego any moral judgment properly so called. "Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History" by Auguste Sabatier
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And if, as they began to believe, he were a " medicine- wolf," an animal gifted with supernatural powers, then it was only inviting death to provoke him. "Dusty Star" by Olaf Baker
