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provoke

English

  1. 🔊 provide the needed stimulus for
  2. 🔊 evoke or provoke to appear or occur
    “Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple”
  3. 🔊 call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
    “arouse pity”
  4. 🔊 annoy continually or chronically
    “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ciricar to provoke, incite, annoy
  2. 🔊 suscitar to provoke, to stir up, to give rise to
  3. 🔊 desatar to provoke, set off, trigger (especially suddenly)

Similar words

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