Verb

(provok)

to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.

* Bible, Eph. vi. 4

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

to bring about a reaction.

* J. Burroughs

To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.

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(obsolete) To appeal.

(Dryden)

Verb

(protrud)

To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.

*

Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes .

To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

(John Locke)

To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.

* Thomson

When Spring protrudes the bursting gems.