Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to provocate
Participle: provocated
Gerund: provocating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | provocate |
| you | provocate |
| he;she;it | provocates |
| we | provocate |
| you | provocate |
| they | provocate |
Perfect
| I | have provocated |
| you | have provocated |
| he;she;it | has provocated |
| we | have provocated |
| you | have provocated |
| they | have provocated |
Past
| I | provocated |
| you | provocated |
| he;she;it | provocated |
| we | provocated |
| you | provocated |
| they | provocated |
Pluperfect
| I | had provocated |
| you | had provocated |
| he;she;it | had provocated |
| we | had provocated |
| you | had provocated |
| they | had provocated |
Future
| I | will provocate |
| you | will provocate |
| he;she;it | will provocate |
| we | will provocate |
| you | will provocate |
| they | will provocate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have provocated |
| you | will have provocated |
| he;she;it | will have provocated |
| we | will have provocated |
| you | will have provocated |
| they | will have provocated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | provocate |
| you | provocate |
| he;she;it | provocate |
| we | provocate |
| you | provocate |
| they | provocate |
Perfect
| I | have provocated |
| you | have provocated |
| he;she;it | have provocated |
| we | have provocated |
| you | have provocated |
| they | have provocated |
Imperfect
| I | provocated |
| you | provocated |
| he;she;it | provocated |
| we | provocated |
| you | provocated |
| they | provocated |
Pluperfect
| I | had provocated |
| you | had provocated |
| he;she;it | had provocated |
| we | had provocated |
| you | had provocated |
| they | had provocated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would provocate |
| you | would provocate |
| he;she;it | would provocate |
| we | would provocate |
| you | would provocate |
| they | would provocate |
Perfect
| I | would have provocated |
| you | would have provocated |
| he;she;it | would have provocated |
| we | would have provocated |
| you | would have provocated |
| they | would have provocated |
Imperative
| you | provocate |
| we | Let's provocate |
| you | provocate |
Verbs conjugated like 'provocate'
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 'provocate'
prelocate,
propogate,
prorogate,
protonate,
revocate,
advocate,
avocate,
colocate,
convocate,
evocate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English provocaten, from Latin prōvocō, prōvocātus. Doublet of provoke. See: Latin '
prōvocō'.
Sample Sentences
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The movie called It is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse But the Society In Which He Lives was a provocating movie. It dramatized the situation and got hard reactions from the gays and the straights. But when you look at it now it is full of hate. And it was OK, in a way, to provocate, but it was not done with a lovely touch. [1981 December 12, Michael Bronski, Frank Ripploh, “The Meter Is Still Running”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 8:]