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Provoke vs Arise - What's the difference?

provoke | arise |

As verbs the difference between provoke and arise

is that provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry while arise is .

provoke

English

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)

    Synonyms

    * (bring about a reaction) bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, grill, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip up

    Derived terms

    * provocation * provocative

    arise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * arize (obsolete)

    Verb

  • To come up from a lower to a higher position.
  • to arise from a kneeling posture
    A cloud arose and covered the sun.
  • To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
  • He arose early in the morning.
  • To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
  • * Bible, Exodus i. 8
  • There arose up a new king which knew not Joseph.
  • * Milton
  • the doubts that in his heart arose
  • * 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
  • Because Plato allowed them to co-exist, the meaning and connotations of the one overlap those of the other, and ambiguities arise .

    Synonyms

    * emerge * occur * appear * * (idiomatic) pop up * (resume existing) reappear

    References

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