Provoke vs Provocate - What's the difference?
provoke | provocate |
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.
(nonstandard) To provoke
To call forth
To challenge
As verbs the difference between provoke and provocate
is that provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry while provocate is to provoke.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)
