'Provoked' definitions:
Definition of 'provoked'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child" [syn: aggravated, provoked]
Definition of 'Provoked'
From: GCIDE
- Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Provoking.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice, cry, call. See Voice.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Obey his voice, provoke him not. --Ex. xxiii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. --Eph. vi. 4. [1913 Webster]
- Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? --Gray. [1913 Webster]
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. -- J. Burroughs. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite; anger. See Irritate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'provoked'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggravated,
- amplified,
- angry,
- annoyed,
- augmented,
- bothered,
- browned-off,
- bugged,
- burnt-up,
- chafed,
- deliberately provoked,
- disturbed,
- embittered,
- enhanced,
- enlarged,
- exacerbated,
- exasperated,
- galled,
- griped,
- heated up,
- heightened,
- hotted up,
- huffy,
- increased,
- intensified,
- irked,
- irritated,
- magnified,
- miffed,
- nettled,
- peeved,
- piqued,
- put-out,
- resentful,
- riled,
- roiled,
- ruffled,
- soured,
- troubled,
- vexed,
- worse,
- worsened