Provoke can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| provoke - provide the needed stimulus for | ||
| provoke - evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" | ||
| provoke - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" | ||
| provoke - annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" |
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| 1. | verb | Washington would really have to anger Japan and Korea to provoke such action, but in a showdown with China - over Taiwan, for example - China holds the cards. | |
| 2. | verb | It would provoke a saint. | |
| 3. | verb | The cat will scratch you if you provoke it. | |
| 4. | verb | A facet of genius is the ability to provoke scandals. | |
| 5. | verb | Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character. | |
| 6. | verb | Don't provoke that wasp. | |
| 7. | verb | Do not provoke that wasp. | |
| 8. | verb | His long absences were starting to provoke suspicion. | |
| 9. | verb | He was always trying to provoke an argument. | |
| 10. | verb | She was always trying to provoke me into saying something I would regret later. | |
| 11. | verb | Don't provoke me. | |
| 12. | verb | Don't do anything to provoke Tom. | |
| 13. | verb | It seems like you're trying to provoke a fight. | |
| 14. | verb | Tom is trying to provoke me. | |
| 15. | verb | Are you trying to provoke me? |
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| Washington would really have to anger Japan and Korea to provoke such action, but in a showdown with China - over Taiwan, for example - China holds the cards. |
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| It would provoke a saint. | |
| The cat will scratch you if you provoke it. | |
| A facet of genius is the ability to provoke scandals. | |
| Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character. | |
| Don't provoke that wasp. | |
| Do not provoke that wasp. | |
| His long absences were starting to provoke suspicion. | |
| He was always trying to provoke an argument. | |
| She was always trying to provoke me into saying something I would regret later. | |
| Don't provoke me. | |
| Don't do anything to provoke Tom. | |
| It seems like you're trying to provoke a fight. | |
| Tom is trying to provoke me. | |
| Are you trying to provoke me? | |