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Provoke vs Madder - What's the difference?

provoke | madder |

As a verb provoke

is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

As a noun madder is

a herbaceous plant, , native to asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root or madder can be .

As an adjective madder is

of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye or madder can be (mad).

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.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Spain were provoked into a response and Villa almost provided a swift equaliser when he rounded Hart but found the angle too acute and could only hit the side-netting.}}
  • (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

    Related terms

    * provocateur

    madder

    English

    (wikipedia madder)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) , from Germanic, perhaps from an Indo-European base meaning "blue." Cognate with (etyl) madra.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A herbaceous plant, , native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root.
  • The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
  • A dye made from the plant.
  • A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

    • Synonyms

    * (Rubia tinctorum) common madder, dyer's madder
    Derived terms
    * (field madder) * Indian madder * madder yellow * rose madder * wild madder

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

    • Related terms

    * alizarin

    See also

    * bedstraw * bluets * genipap *

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (mad)

    • Etymology 3

    From mead

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) " O'Rourke's Feast":
    • Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
    A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
    O there is the sport!

    References

    * Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

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