1. Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
   "a provoking delay at the airport"
   - agitative, agitating

1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   - arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise 
2. Evoke or provoke to appear or occur
   "Her behaviour provoked a quarrel between the couple"
   - evoke, call forth, kick up 
3. Provide the needed stimulus for
   - stimulate 
4. 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

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