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Word entry · 7 letters

provoke

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"Stir up"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /pɹəˈvəʊk/Part of speech verbSorted ekooprvStarts with PEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (PROVOKE).

Definitions

  1. provide the needed stimulus for

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French provoquer, from Old French, from Latin prōvocāre. Doublet of provocate.

Used in a sentence

  • Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
  • Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
  • To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.

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