2. (verb)provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up evoke or provoke to appear or occur "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
3. (verb)provoke, stimulate provide the needed stimulus for
4. (verb)harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke annoy continually or chronically "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
1. (verb)provoke to intentionally make angry The witness said Martin provoked the men into a fight.
2. provoke to cause a particular feeling or action The incident has provoked debate.
Definition of 'provoke'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)provoke to call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate
Definitions of provoke 
Afrikaans: uitlok, tart
Arabic: يُثير، يَستَفِز
Bulgarian: предизвиквам
Brazilian: provocar
Czech: provokovat
German: verärgern
Danish: provokere
Greek: προκαλώ, ερεθίζω κπ.
Spanish: provocar
Estonian: provotseerima
Farsi: عصبانی کردن
Finnish: ärsyttää
French: provoquer
Hebrew: לְהַרגִיז
Hindi: क्रुद्ध करना, उत्तेजित कर
Hungarian: bosszant
Indonesian: memancing kemarahan
Icelandic: ergja
Italian: provocare
Japanese: 怒らせる
Korean: 성나게 하다
Lithuanian: (su)pykdyti, (su)erzinti
Latvian: []provocēt; kaitināt
Malay: membangkitkan kemarahan
Dutch: uitdagen
Norwegian: provosere, utfordre
Polish: sprowokować
Persian: عصبانی کردن
Pashto: تحريكول
Portuguese: provocar
Romanian: a provoca
Russian: сердить, раздражать
Slovak: provokovať
Slovenian: razdražiti
Serbian: provocirati
Swedish: reta upp
Thai: ยั่วยุอารมณ์
Turkish: kızdırmak, öfkelendirmek
Taiwanese: 激怒，挑釁
Ukrainian: сердити, роздратовувати
Urdu: بھڑکانا، اشتعال دلانا
Vietnamese: chọc tức; khiêu khích
Chinese: 激怒，挑衅
