Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to provoke
Participle: provoked
Gerund: provoking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | provoke |
| you | provoke |
| he;she;it | provokes |
| we | provoke |
| you | provoke |
| they | provoke |
Perfect
| I | have provoked |
| you | have provoked |
| he;she;it | has provoked |
| we | have provoked |
| you | have provoked |
| they | have provoked |
Past
| I | provoked |
| you | provoked |
| he;she;it | provoked |
| we | provoked |
| you | provoked |
| they | provoked |
Pluperfect
| I | had provoked |
| you | had provoked |
| he;she;it | had provoked |
| we | had provoked |
| you | had provoked |
| they | had provoked |
Future
| I | will provoke |
| you | will provoke |
| he;she;it | will provoke |
| we | will provoke |
| you | will provoke |
| they | will provoke |
Future Perfect
| I | will have provoked |
| you | will have provoked |
| he;she;it | will have provoked |
| we | will have provoked |
| you | will have provoked |
| they | will have provoked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | provoke |
| you | provoke |
| he;she;it | provoke |
| we | provoke |
| you | provoke |
| they | provoke |
Perfect
| I | have provoked |
| you | have provoked |
| he;she;it | have provoked |
| we | have provoked |
| you | have provoked |
| they | have provoked |
Imperfect
| I | provoked |
| you | provoked |
| he;she;it | provoked |
| we | provoked |
| you | provoked |
| they | provoked |
Pluperfect
| I | had provoked |
| you | had provoked |
| he;she;it | had provoked |
| we | had provoked |
| you | had provoked |
| they | had provoked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would provoke |
| you | would provoke |
| he;she;it | would provoke |
| we | would provoke |
| you | would provoke |
| they | would provoke |
Perfect
| I | would have provoked |
| you | would have provoked |
| he;she;it | would have provoked |
| we | would have provoked |
| you | would have provoked |
| they | would have provoked |
Imperative
| you | provoke |
| we | Let's provoke |
| you | provoke |
Verbs conjugated like 'provoke'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'provoke'
proke,
promote,
promove,
propone,
propose,
prove,
provide,
provine,
provost,
revoke,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- bring about a reaction
- incite
- to cause someone to be upset or displeased
- aggravate, annoy, antagonize, bother, bug, chap someone's hide, exasperate, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get up, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, irk, jazz, nark, peeve, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rile, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, ruffle someone's feathers, tick off, try one's patience, vex, wind up
- to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
- awrath, gall, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get to, honk off, inflame, infuriate, madden, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, nark, offend, outrage, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, steam, enrage
- to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure
- animate, awaken, call up, electrify, encourage, enflame, enkindle, enliven, enthrill, exagitate, excite, exhilarate, exsuscitate, fillip, fire, fire the blood, foment, galvanise, gin up, inflame, inspirit, intoxicate, invigorate, kindle, liven, liven up, pique, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir up, stoke, suscitate, thrill, vitalize, wake, warm the blood, whet, work up
- to encourage or persuade into action; to bring about a reaction
- abet, actuate, bring about, encourage, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invoke, motivate, move, prompt, rouse, set off, spur, stir, stir up, urge, whip up
- vex
- affront, aggravate, anger, annoy, chafe, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate
- incite
- induce, animate, galvanize, prompt, arouse, innervate, innerve
- cause
- make, induce, produce
Antonyms
- to evoke action or change, often violent or extreme action
- pacify
- to keep under control
- encourage, promote, release, curb, vent
- incite
- discourage, dissuade, check, prevent
- cause
- effect, result, outcome, end
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1432, from O.Fr.
provoker (14c., Fr.
provoquer), from L.
provocare "call forth, challenge," from
pro- "forth" +
vocare "to call" (see voice).
2. Borrowed from Middle French provoquer, from Old French, from Latin prōvocāre. Doublet of provocate.
Verbs referencing "provoke"
Spanish
provocar, Finnish with old forms
provosoida.
Sample Sentences
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“ Well, but you will have to know something, and know it to your cost, if you stay here. You don't know what a provoking, stupid, careless, unreasonable, childish, ungrateful set of wretches they are. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ You do really try to be provoking, ” said Marie.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ It's provoking to be talked to in that way. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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‘The issue appears to have been provoked on the part of Vinyard, who was determined at all hazards to defeat the appointment of Baker, and who, himself defeated, turned his ire and revenge upon the unfortunate Arndt. ’
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Lor, you did ! Be hanged if they ar’n't lucky to get shet of ye. Spects they's gwine to trade ye off with a lot o ’ cracked tea-pots and sich like ! ” said Sambo, with a provoking grin.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Legree was provoked beyond measure by Tom's evident happiness; and riding up to him, belabored him over his head and shoulders.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)