单词 | provoke |
释义 | provoke (once / 220 pages) v Anything that brings about a strong reaction can be said to provoke. You can provoke that lion if you want. But if he responds by attacking, don't come running to me. Let's consider some people who have been known to provoke. Lenny Bruce, was more than just a comedian. He was a "provocateur" who used humor to deliver his controversial diatribes. Humor was his way to provoke people to think. Madonna made her name not only by producing a memorable catalogue of great pop songs, she proved herself to be a master at provoking people through her outrageous attire and lyrics. The moral of this story? It's possible to provoke both positive and negative responses. WORD FAMILYprovoke: provocation, provocative, provoked, provoker, provokes, provoking+/provocation: provocations/provocative: provocatively, unprovocative/provoked: unprovoked/provoker: provokers/provoking: provokingest, provokingly, unprovoking/unprovoked: unprovokedly USAGE EXAMPLESOccasionally, the drugs provoke a severe auto-immune response, resulting in potential toxicities including inflammatory lung, liver and thyroid disorders. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) US material and weapons support for the YPG provoked Turkish protests. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) The essay was meant to provoke conservatives, and it succeeded. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1v provide the needed stimulus for Syn|Hypo|Hyper stimulate entice, lure, tempt provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion rejuvenatecause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land jogstimulate to remember incite, instigate, set off, stir upprovoke or stir up agitate, foment, stir uptry to stir up public opinion hook, snareentice and trap seducelure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct calllure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal stoollure with a stool, as of wild fowl lead onentice or induce especially when unwise or mistaken tweedleentice through the use of music raiseactivate or stir up decoylure or entrap with or as if with a decoy baitlure, entice, or entrap with bait rumpuscause a disturbance challenge issue a challenge to 2v call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) Syn|Hypo|Hyper arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise strike a chord, touch a chord evoke a reaction, response, or emotion ask for, inviteincrease the likelihood of drawelicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. rekindlearouse again infatuatearouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way prickto cause a sharp emotional pain fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up, wakearouse or excite feelings and passions excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stirstir the feelings, emotions, or peace of excitearouse or elicit a feeling angermake angry discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upsetcause to lose one's composure shamecause to be ashamed bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, woundhurt the feelings of overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelmovercome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli interestexcite the curiosity of; engage the interest of devastateoverwhelm or overpower absorb, engage, engross, occupyconsume all of one's attention or time clutch, get hold of, seizeaffect affront, diss, insulttreat, mention, or speak to rudely fermentwork up into agitation or excitement fuelstimulate arouse, excite, sex, turn on, wind upstimulate sexually affright, fright, frighten, scarecause fear in enervate, faze, unnerve, unsettledisturb the composure of dissolvecause to lose control emotionally combustcause to become violent or angry miffcause to be annoyed gall, irkirritate or vex exasperate, incense, infuriatemake furious maddenmake mad offend, piquecause to feel resentment or indignation bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate, throwcause to be confused emotionally abash, embarrasscause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious discountenancelook with disfavor on anguish, hurt, paincause emotional anguish or make miserable laceratedeeply hurt the feelings of; distress stingcause an emotional pain, as if by stinging enrageput into a rage; make violently angry thrill, tickle, vibratefeel sudden intense sensation or emotion afflictcause great unhappiness for; distress abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortifycause to feel shame; hurt the pride of invite, temptgive rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting killoverwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration benightovertake with darkness or night knock outoverwhelm with admiration staggerastound or overwhelm, as with shock lockhold fast (in a certain state) elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, upliftfill with high spirits; fill with optimism animate, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorateheighten or intensify titillateexcite pleasurably or erotically aggravate, exacerbate, exasperateexasperate or irritate fascinate, grip, spellbind, transfixto render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe enthusecause to feel enthusiasm create, make make or cause to be or to become 3v evoke or provoke to appear or occur Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple Syn|Hypo|Hyper call forth, evoke, kick up arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic pick provoke cause, do, make give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally 4v annoy continually or chronically Syn|Hypo|Hyper beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague goad, needle goad or provoke,as by constant criticism bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, tormenttreat cruelly hazeharass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions maddendrive up the wall; go on someone's nerves hamstringmake ineffective or powerless badger, beleaguer, bug, pester, teaseannoy persistently oppress, persecutecause to suffer annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations |
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