| provoke | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ touch a chord, strike a chord | evoke a reaction, response, or emotion.; "this writer strikes a chord with young women"; "The storyteller touched a chord" |
| ~ ask for, invite | increase the likelihood of.; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism" |
| ~ draw | elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc..; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter" |
| ~ rekindle | arouse again.; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love" |
| ~ infatuate | arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way.; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her" |
| ~ prick | to cause a sharp emotional pain.; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience" |
| ~ fire up, stir up, heat, ignite, wake, inflame | arouse or excite feelings and passions.; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ excite | arouse or elicit a feeling. |
| ~ anger | make angry.; "The news angered him" |
| ~ discomfit, discompose, untune, disconcert, upset | cause to lose one's composure. |
| ~ shame | cause to be ashamed. |
| ~ spite, bruise, injure, wound, offend, hurt | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" |
| ~ overwhelm, sweep over, whelm, overpower, overcome, overtake | overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. |
| ~ interest | excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of. |
| v. (creation) | 2. call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke | evoke or provoke to appear or occur.; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" |
| ~ bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, arouse, put forward, evoke, stir, raise | summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" |
| ~ cause, do, make | give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" |
| ~ pick | provoke.; "pick a fight or a quarrel" |
| v. (communication) | 3. provoke, stimulate | provide the needed stimulus for. |
| ~ entice, lure, tempt | provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion.; "He lured me into temptation" |
| ~ rejuvenate | cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land. |
| ~ jog | stimulate to remember.; "jog my memory" |
| ~ instigate, incite, stir up, set off | provoke or stir up.; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" |
| ~ challenge | issue a challenge to.; "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match" |
| ~ agitate, foment, stir up | try to stir up public opinion. |
| v. (emotion) | 4. beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke | annoy continually or chronically.; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" |
| ~ needle, goad | goad or provoke,as by constant criticism.; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks" |
| ~ annoy, devil, gravel, irritate, nark, rile, vex, bother, nettle, rag, chafe, get at, get to | cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" |
| ~ bedevil, dun, rag, crucify, frustrate, torment | treat cruelly.; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" |
| ~ haze | harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions. |
| rage | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. fury, madness, rage | a feeling of intense anger.; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" |
| ~ anger, ire, choler | a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance. |
| ~ wrath | intense anger (usually on an epic scale). |
| ~ lividity | a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored. |
| n. (state) | 2. rage | a state of extreme anger.; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer" |
| ~ angriness, anger | the state of being angry. |
| n. (state) | 3. passion, rage | something that is desired intensely.; "his rage for fame destroyed him" |
| ~ desire | something that is desired. |
| n. (state) | 4. rage | violent state of the elements.; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks" |
| ~ violence | a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. craze, cult, fad, furor, furore, rage | an interest followed with exaggerated zeal.; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" |
| ~ fashion | the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior. |
| v. (stative) | 6. rage, ramp, storm | behave violently, as if in state of a great anger. |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
| v. (stative) | 7. rage | be violent; as of fires and storms. |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (emotion) | 8. rage | feel intense anger.; "Rage against the dying of the light!" |
| ~ blow a fuse, blow one's stack, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit, blow up, combust | get very angry and fly into a rage.; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic" |
| ~ foam at the mouth, froth at the mouth | be in a state of uncontrolled anger. |
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