Instigator vs Provoke - What's the difference?
instigator | provoke |
A person who intentionally incites or starts something, especially one that starts trouble.
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 a noun instigator
is a person who intentionally incites or starts something, especially one that starts trouble.As a verb provoke is
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.instigator
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Alternative forms
* instigatour (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* initiatorprovoke
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Verb
(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)