Found 3 items, similar to Provoked.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: provoked
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: provoked
provoked
adj : incited, especially deliberately, to anger;
“aggravated by
passive resistance”;
“the provoked animal attacked the
child” [syn:
aggravated]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Provoked
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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