provoke

1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (synset 201763170)
   "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
   is a type of: create, make - make or cause to be or to become
   subtypes:

   • strike a chord, touch a chord - evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
   • ask for, invite - increase the likelihood of
   • draw - elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
   • rekindle - arouse again
   • infatuate - arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
   • prick - to cause a sharp emotional pain
   • fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake - arouse or excite feelings and passions
   • excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
   • excite - arouse or elicit a feeling
   • anger - make angry
   • discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset - cause to lose one's composure
   • shame - cause to be ashamed
   • bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound - hurt the feelings of
   • overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
   • interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
   same as: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise
2. Evoke or provoke to appear or occur (synset 201650408)
   "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
   is a type of: cause, do, make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
   subtypes: pick - provoke
   same as: call forth, evoke, kick up
   verb group: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir - summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
3. Provide the needed stimulus for (synset 200795741)
   is a type of: challenge - issue a challenge to
   subtypes:

   • entice, lure, tempt - provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
   • rejuvenate - cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land
   • jog - stimulate to remember
   • incite, instigate, set off, stir up - provoke or stir up
   • agitate, foment, stir up - try to stir up public opinion
   same as: stimulate
4. Annoy continually or chronically (synset 201793315)
   "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
   is a type of: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex - cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
   subtypes:

   • goad, needle - annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism
   • bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment - treat cruelly
   • haze - harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions
   same as: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague

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