Definitions

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  • verb nonstandard To provoke
  • verb To call forth
  • verb To challenge

Etymologies

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From Latin provocare

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Examples

  • The present policy with which all is done not to 'provocate' nobody, is a weak stand in which the Government beds backwards for the AEL and connected organizations.

    Atlas Shrugs 2009

  • Using violence, provocate, get the army to retaliate, have some civilians killed, make sure that ...

    CNN Transcript May 21, 2007 2007

  • The bird and the monkey 30 metres above him are trying to provocate another cry from the voice they heard before; the squirrel looks puzzled and uncertain but neither of the three suspects the mortal danger that awaits them from below.

    My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882

  • There's no harm done him yit; and none will happen to him ef so be he has sense enough not to provocate us.

    The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852

  • Toni Tecuceanu de la "Cronica Cârcotaşilor" a murit în urma unor complicaţii provocate de gripa A/H1N1

    Mediafax 2010

  • Vezi aici totul despre medicamentul cu care a fost depistat pozitiv Mutu Răzvan Firea, soţul Gabrielei Vrânceanu Firea, a decedat la vârsta de 52 de ani Toni Tecuceanu de la "Cronica Cârcotaşilor" a murit în urma unor complicaţii provocate de gripa A/H1N1

    Mediafax 2010

  • Circa 800 de persoane evacuate în Islanda din cauza inundaţiilor provocate de erupţia vulcanică

    Mediafax 2010

  • Cod portocaliu de ger pentru şapte judeţe, de duminică până miercuri Vezi aici care sunt cele mai dorite femei din lume - GALERIE FOTO Toni Tecuceanu de la "Cronica Cârcotaşilor" a murit în urma unor complicaţii provocate de gripa A/H1N1

    Mediafax 2010

  • - VIDEO Circa 800 de persoane evacuate în Islanda din cauza inundaţiilor provocate de erupţia vulcanică

    Mediafax 2010

  • I dati raccolti da Cluster e analoghe sonde orbitali hanno permettono di identificare il fenomeno delle "scosse" interplanetarie provocate dalle eiezioni di massa coronale come quella che si è verificata domenica 11 aprile.

    Radiopassioni Andrea Lawendel 2010

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