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. [1913 Webster] 2. To appeal. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Obey his voice, provoke him not. --Ex. xxiii. 21. [1913 Webster] Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. --Eph. vi. 4. [1913 Webster] Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? --Gray. [1913 Webster] To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. -- J. Burroughs. [1913 Webster] Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite; anger. See Irritate. [1913 Webster]