What are the antonyms for PROVOKE?
- hurt, comfort, wait, alleviate, hold, ruin, stop, satisfy, demote, hinder, resist, deter, halt, impede, bore, check, rein, frustrate, appease, ignore, end, placate, weaken, bridle, content, forbear, lose, prevent, lull, delight, restrain, dull, destroy, gladden, disenchant, aid, counter, soothe, tame, deaden, please, dishearten, put out, inhibit, depress, calm, honor, obstruct, constrain, curb, gratify, regulate, make happy, discourage, settle, pacify, compliment, help, fail, quiet, soften, assuage, dissuade, mollify.
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Synonyms for PROVOKE
- offend,
- punch,
- throw,
- play up to,
- defy,
- Innerved,
- ask for it,
- grate,
- Roust,
- get someone,
- give a bad time,
- acerbate,
- Innerving,
- grieve,
- bug,
- make uneasy,
- Rubbed,
- feed the fire,
- rub salt in wound,
- dump on,
- rub salt in a wound,
- criticize,
- set off,
- play cat and mouse,
- kindle,
- triggers,
- spurn,
- Riveted,
- be at the bottom of,
- heckling,
- redound,
- sow the seeds,
- impel,
- wig,
- lays eggs,
- Bumming,
- re-claim,
- jolt,
- wheedle,
- fling,
- laughed at,
- disgust,
- bring forth,
- Mads,
- stand to,
- heated up,
- rowel,
- imposed upon,
- spitballs,
- hassle,
- start the ball rolling,
- prod,
- railroad,
- go from bad to worse,
- pushing around,
- invited,
- Fussed,
- boiling over,
- frenzying,
- warm,
- Impassion,
- irk,
- cause,
- ignite,
- drive to distraction,
- advocate,
- steaming up,
- spread,
- bother,
- Overexcite,
- frothing,
- ticked off,
- standing to,
- wigged,
- Chivied,
- spitball,
- evoke,
- yap at,
- get mad,
- restore,
- gall,
- mess with,
- affront,
- blow away,
- turn on,
- embitter,
- thought up,
- tempt,
- sanction,
- square off,
- taunt,
- expose oneself to,
- inspires,
- in spirits,
- getting to,
- Egging,
- be on one's case,
- rattle one's cage,
- insist upon,
- makes waves,
- giving birth,
- imposes upon,
- sparkle,
- commove,
- spirit up,
- bring down on,
- sicced,
- Distempered,
- arouse,
- Sired,
- twist the knife,
- outrage,
- turn upside down,
- antagonize,
- throw into tizzy,
- draw,
- come with,
- churn up,
- be subjected to,
- exhort,
- railroaded,
- piss off,
- waked up,
- froth,
- burn up,
- scratch around,
- revive,
- lose temper,
- catapult,
- seethe,
- track down,
- instill,
- Mooting,
- exercise,
- win over,
- heave,
- put through wringer,
- impeded,
- curdled,
- knock chip off shoulder,
- stuck fast,
- Hacking,
- is responsible for,
- zip up,
- translate,
- ask for,
- displease,
- sicking,
- produces,
- lose one's temper,
- Grand-stand,
- rave,
- dare,
- get things rolling,
- face off,
- dispraises,
- thrust,
- give back,
- Fronting,
- ridden,
- resonate,
- get to,
- lash,
- extort,
- aggrieve,
- produce,
- cross,
- harass,
- occasions,
- lob,
- fly in face of,
- pester,
- slap in face,
- touch,
- stir up,
- Frothed,
- enraged,
- make mouth water,
- hatch,
- Outdare,
- anger,
- goosing,
- heat up,
- jar,
- alert,
- Overawing,
- rivet,
- switching on,
- Fuddling,
- poke,
- boil,
- psyching,
- setting in motion,
- gets one's goat,
- give impetus,
- pain,
- slap the face,
- enforce,
- put up to,
- cramp style,
- impress,
- moots,
- Devilling,
- parented,
- spark,
- push,
- whip up,
- infatuates,
- think up,
- sow seeds,
- counterpoint,
- help out,
- have over,
- strike,
- Buffaloes,
- flurry,
- whet,
- search high heaven,
- eat,
- fuddles,
- court,
- result in,
- bestirs,
- stand up to,
- Chivying,
- enthuses,
- rankle,
- energize,
- giving rise to,
- hound,
- carry away,
- bristle,
- foster,
- inflame,
- get a rise out of,
- rise,
- Spawned,
- activate,
- face,
- include as guest,
- squared off,
- be set,
- urge,
- unbalancing,
- put down,
- affect,
- invite,
- worked on,
- shove,
- Bestirred,
- talk into,
- fret,
- wear on,
- do something about it,
- wigging,
- act upon,
- perturb,
- extorts,
- hit on,
- occasion,
- kick up,
- push one's button,
- provoke,
- helped out,
- feelings,
- irritates,
- Fussing,
- appealed to,
- boil over,
- blistered,
- leavening,
- entice,
- give incentive,
- sending,
- enliven,
- get under one's skin,
- grate on,
- drove to distraction,
- take one on,
- encourage,
- called forth,
- Deviled,
- give a zinger,
- stirs up,
- be disagreeable,
- rag on,
- prime,
- woken,
- enthusing,
- lean on,
- making ready,
- gave birth to,
- get in one's hair,
- drive,
- innervate,
- madden,
- give,
- chivy,
- prompt,
- enrage,
- Rowelled,
- wake up,
- foment,
- originates,
- overburdened,
- propel,
- jolting,
- sting,
- rend,
- spite,
- originate,
- be on one's back,
- get smoking,
- get on one's nerves,
- drive up the wall,
- Dispraised,
- got going,
- goose,
- fan the fire,
- lead to,
- over-burden,
- getting going,
- plague,
- endorse,
- rolled out,
- awake,
- stew,
- rekindle,
- start off,
- bird dog,
- go over,
- simmer,
- galvanize,
- stir embers,
- switched on,
- give rise to,
- exposed to,
- vex,
- be conspicuous,
- electrify,
- eating,
- called out,
- lay eggs,
- overawe,
- call,
- show a leg,
- sticking fast,
- infect,
- Innerve,
- set on,
- shock,
- burning up,
- rub one the wrong way,
- fires up,
- jostle,
- exacerbate,
- Sneered,
- make blood boil,
- set in motion,
- searching out,
- be on the back of,
- turn one off,
- incur,
- put down*,
- give one an idea,
- ferment,
- calls out,
- be at,
- invite to debate,
- Roweled,
- dispraise,
- pitch,
- turning inside out,
- repel,
- make a point of,
- bring about,
- mousetraps,
- hurl,
- make an impression,
- slight,
- Urged,
- jog,
- engineer,
- got to,
- over-wrought,
- make for,
- effect,
- working on,
- hinders,
- give invitation,
- put in motion,
- making for,
- heats up,
- PREPS,
- sling,
- take out after,
- hang in,
- Infatuating,
- evoked,
- Mooted,
- rouse,
- elicit,
- nettle,
- back,
- intrude upon,
- support,
- Egged,
- Nettles,
- stimulate,
- push one's buttons,
- buffaloed,
- decide,
- meet face to face,
- get in hair,
- act,
- raising hell,
- blew away,
- needle,
- overawes,
- started off,
- turned out,
- condone,
- mousetrap,
- needling,
- work up,
- prep,
- Rowelling,
- rile,
- get on nerves,
- do it,
- toffs,
- carried away,
- Dispraising,
- Honeying,
- give birth to,
- uplights,
- dog,
- cut to the quick,
- leading to,
- switch on,
- hit where one lives,
- juicing,
- incite,
- intoxicate,
- make ready,
- bum out,
- touching off,
- SICS,
- turning on,
- rub salt in the wound,
- begin,
- drive out of mind,
- knock the chip off one's shoulder,
- start,
- mesmerize,
- start something,
- led on,
- throw down the gauntlet,
- adjy,
- set afoot,
- confront,
- craze*,
- work,
- up set,
- pick on,
- fan the flames,
- search out,
- challenge,
- juiced,
- Gnawing,
- bump,
- umbrage,
- leave,
- take it out on,
- infuriate,
- burned up,
- pile out,
- persecute,
- seek,
- set astir,
- play dirty,
- hang up,
- makes up,
- aggravate,
- make a stand,
- parenting,
- Ragging,
- Devilled,
- boned,
- assert,
- powered,
- rivets,
- heckle,
- Rallied,
- uplight,
- pique,
- turn inside out,
- titillate,
- ask for trouble,
- cross swards,
- bait,
- turn one's head,
- feeling,
- take out on,
- carp at,
- Bestirring,
- find fault,
- appeal to,
- intoxicates,
- call forth,
- agitate,
- take breath away,
- execute,
- put forward,
- give birth,
- throw down gauntlet,
- gets to,
- give the cold shoulder,
- asked for,
- under-estimates,
- keyed up,
- promotes,
- make sore,
- searched out,
- call out,
- excite,
- get one's goat,
- be violent,
- toff,
- Hacked,
- Distempering,
- induce,
- prepping,
- Repulsing,
- honied,
- fizzing,
- meet,
- Siring,
- hasten,
- shoot,
- tick off,
- bedevil,
- woke up,
- key up,
- upset apple cart,
- slap in the face,
- enthuse,
- work on,
- hurtle,
- start ball rolling,
- squaring off,
- take one's breath away,
- harry,
- insult,
- steamed up,
- lead on,
- tease,
- chafe,
- rousing,
- ram,
- Intensate,
- Shepherding,
- fire up,
- abet,
- roll out,
- make waves,
- curdling,
- incense,
- leads to,
- Promoted,
- put on the spot,
- resulting in,
- generate,
- goad,
- wire,
- force,
- send,
- go down,
- do to,
- chivvy,
- irritate,
- fuddle,
- egg on,
- enamor,
- overawed,
- stood up to,
- led to,
- get,
- make my day,
- inspired,
- annoy,
- make,
- nag,
- remind,
- bum*,
- touch off,
- sicked,
- magnetize,
- swamp,
- disappoint,
- Discontenting,
- putting spot,
- bring on,
- turned upside down,
- raise,
- insist,
- bringing forth,
- beset,
- disturb,
- henpecked,
- gave rise to,
- hack,
- goosed,
- inspire,
- tickle pink,
- give chase,
- Roweling,
- engender,
- fuddled,
- gives birth to,
- instigate,
- leaning on,
- move,
- resulted in,
- in flames,
- get on someone,
- make a hit,
- abuse,
- PSYCH,
- Fretting,
- calling forth,
- zinging,
- object to,
- dynamize,
- be responsible for,
- slander,
- Deviling,
- drive insane,
- expose to,
- galling,
- miff,
- Bummed,
- vivify,
- try one's patience,
- transport,
- step over the line,
- drive crazy,
- turned inside out,
- stirring up,
- get under skin,
- peeve,
- motivate,
- muster courage,
- trigger,
- push around,
- chevvy,
- enkindle,
- stirred up,
- sticks out,
- blow up,
- ruffle,
- Ridiculed,
- overwhelm,
- rowels,
- bestir,
- stoke,
- hunt down,
- railroading,
- stick fast,
- gives rise to,
- dumped on,
- leads on,
- powering,
- waking up,
- hanging in,
- raise hell,
- made ready,
- tire,
- sets in motion,
- buffalo,
- Plaguing,
- spur,
- protrude,
- rattle,
- Moiling,
- impose upon,
- drive bananas,
- be on one's tail,
- scandalize,
- face down,
- set,
- met with,
- gooses,
- meet with,
- knock,
- give a hard time,
- put to,
- nudge,
- Shepherded,
- launch,
- fascinate,
- get goat,
- tee off,
- throw together,
- stick it out,
- steam up,
- Boning,
- jog memory,
- infatuate,
- steamroll,
- trump up,
- infuse,
- chevy,
- triggering,
- heating,
- IRED,
- zipped up,
- leave no stone unturned,
- acted upon,
- Madded,
- Commoving,
- rant,
- stir,
- encounter,
- step on one's toes,
- send invitation,
- upset the apple cart,
- fly in the face of,
- make see red,
- argue into,
- prepped,
- get someone's goat,
- miffed,
- Imprest,
- psychs,
- hurl defiance at,
- sic,
- invite competition,
- burn,
- torment,
- fire,
- puts forward,
- get going,
- Winging,
- setting off,
- eaten,
- make splash,
- have in,
- Trancing,
- throw up.
Usage Examples for PROVOKE
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There seemed in his icy smile a very charm to wound vanity and provoke rage. - "Zanoni" by Edward Bulwer Lytton
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It was, therefore, necessary to await the issue of another day, rather than to provoke a night battle in the streets. - "The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume II.(of III) 1566-74" by John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: January 25, 2009
