Provoke vs Fuel - What's the difference?
provoke | fuel |
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.
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
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(figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
To provide with fuel.
To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
As verbs the difference between provoke and fuel
is that provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry while fuel is to provide with fuel.As a noun fuel is
substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.provoke
English
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)
Synonyms
* (bring about a reaction) bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, grill, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip upDerived terms
* provocation * provocativefuel
English
(wikipedia)Noun
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- His books were fuel for the revolution.
- Money is the fuel for economy.
- That film was nightmare fuel !