Harrass vs Provoke - What's the difference?
harrass | provoke |
(dated) To harass
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
As verbs the difference between harrass and provoke
is that harrass is while provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.harrass
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to harrassQuotations
*1829 Jared Sparks - The Correspondence of the American Revolution *:If the Americans have horse well trained to the woods, it will harrass such an army infinitelyprovoke
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(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)