provoke  /prəv'ok/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  provoke
  (v.)挑舋,激怒,招惹,引起

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. i.
     1. To cause provocation or anger.
  
     2. To appeal.
  
     Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Dryden.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

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

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  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}]