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Provoked vs Enraged - What's the difference?

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Provoked is a related term of enraged.


As verbs the difference between provoked and enraged

is that provoked is (provoke) while enraged is (enrage).

As an adjective enraged is

angered, made furious, made full of rage.

provoked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (provoke)

    • 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

    enraged

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Angered, made furious, made full of rage.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (enrage)

    • Anagrams

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