| 释义 |
Adjective: provoking pru'vowking- Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
"a provoking delay at the airport"
- agitative, agitating
Verb: provoke pru'vowk- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise - Evoke or provoke to appear or occur
"Her behaviour provoked a quarrel between the couple"
- evoke, call forth, kick up - Provide the needed stimulus for
- stimulate - Annoy continually or chronically
- harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy [non-standard], beset, plague, molest
See also: provocation, provocative, provoker, provokingly Type of: annoy, bother, cause, chafe, challenge, create, devil, do, get at, get to, gravel [US], irritate, make, nark [Brit], nettle, rag, rile, vex Encyclopedia: Provoke Provoking |