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Provoke vs Tarre - What's the difference?

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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between provoke and tarre

is that provoke is (obsolete) to appeal while tarre is (obsolete) to incite; to provoke; to spur on.

As verbs the difference between provoke and tarre

is that provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry while tarre is (obsolete) to incite; to provoke; to spur on.

As a noun tarre is

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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

    tarre

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To incite; to provoke; to spur on.
    • Related terms
    * tarry

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • * 1659 , Richard Brome
    • she takes not so much for curing a thousand mortal People, as I have spent in Turpentine and Tarre to keep my Flocklings cleanly in a Spring time.

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