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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Provoke (0.00887 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Provoke.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: provoke
memancing, membangkitkan, mengacum, menggusarkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: provoke
provoke
v 1: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
“arouse
pity”;
“raise a smile”;
“evoke sympathy” [syn:
arouse,
elicit,
enkindle,
kindle,
evoke,
fire,
raise]
2: call forth;
“Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the
couple” [syn:
evoke,
call forth,
kick up]
3: provide the needed stimulus for [syn:
stimulate]
4: annoy continually or chronically;
“He is known to harry his
staff when he is overworked”;
“This man harasses his
female co-workers” [syn:
harass,
hassle,
harry,
chivy,
chivvy,
chevy,
chevvy,
beset,
plague,
molest]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Provoke
Provoke
\Pro*voke"\, v. i.
1. To cause provocation or anger.
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2. To appeal.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Dryden.
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Provoke
\Pro*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Provoked; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Provoking.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call
forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice,
cry, call. See
Voice.]
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense
to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition;
hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a
challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to
irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
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Obey his voice, provoke him not. --Ex. xxiii.
21.
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Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. --Eph.
vi. 4.
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Such acts
Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
To make death in us live. --Milton.
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Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? --Gray.
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To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it,
what it provokes in his own soul. -- J.
Burroughs.
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Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite;
anger. See
Irritate.
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