provoke
pruh vohk
- v call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- v evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple - v provide the needed stimulus for
- v annoy continually or chronically
- Such sudden and vertiginous popularity was bound to provoke a backlash, and in Indonesia it came not from teens who discovered a newer, hotter idol but from Muslim clerics .
- If indeed a confrontation is in the cards, I don't see that the Administration has a choice other than to provoke an incident force the Iranians to fire back in the clear light .
- That prospect will doubtless provoke protests that direct consumption of grain can't provide the same protein that meat provides.