provoke
/pɹəˈvoʊk/ verb C1- To cause someone to become annoyed or angry. · Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- To bring about a reaction.
He/she/it provokes · Past provoked · Past participle provoked · -ing form provoking
Verb forms
- Base form
- provoke
- He/she/it
- provokes
- Past
- provoked
- Past participle
- provoked
- -ing form
- provoking
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“No; it is not you who have directly made this exposure and brought this sorrow on us, but you hypocritically provoked it.”
“I get tired of other girls--there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them.
On his approaching them soon afterwards, though without seeming to have any intention of speaking, Miss Lucas defied her friend to mention such a subject to him, which immediately provoking Elizabeth to do it, she turned to him and said,--
She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance.
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