Word Meaning

provoke definition and meaning

v. t. 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.
v. i. To cause provocation or anger.
v. i. To appeal. [A Latinism]

Crossword clues for provoke

- Incite to action
- Incite to anger