Provoke

[prə'vəʊk] or [prə'vok]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) provide the needed stimulus for.

(verb.) evoke or provoke to appear or occur; 'Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple'.

錄入:奥利维尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.

(v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism]

戴夫校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Excite, stimulate, arouse, awaken, incite, move, kindle, inflame, animate, instigate, impel, stir up, work up.[2]. Exasperate, incense, enrage, chafe, anger, irritate, exacerbate, nettle, offend, affront, infuriate, give offence or umbrage to, put out, put out of humor, work into a passion, lash into fury, raise one's ire, raise one's dander, make one's blood boil, drive one mad.

編輯:迈尔斯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Educe, summon, rouse, irritate, excite, challenge, vex, impel, offend,exasperate, anger, tantalize

ANT:Allay, relegate, pacify, soothe, conciliate

編輯:特伦斯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to call forth: to summon: to excite or call into action: to excite with anger: to offend: (B.) to challenge.—n. Provocā′tion act of provoking: that which provokes: any cause of danger.—adjs. Provoc′ative Provoc′atory tending to provoke or excite.—n. anything that stirs up or provokes.—n. Provoc′ativeness the quality of being provocative.—adj. Provō′kable.—ns. Provōke′ment (Spens.) provocation; Provō′ker one who or that which provokes causes or promotes.—adj. Provō′king irritating.—adv. Provō′kingly.—The provocation the sojourn of the Jews in the wilderness when they provoked God.

編輯:沃尔夫冈