Tra từ provoke - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

verb

1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (Freq. 3)
- arouse pity
- raise a smile
- evoke sympathy
• Syn:
arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke,
fire, raise
• Derivationally related forms:
provocative, provocation, evocative (for: evoke), evocation (for: evoke), elicitation (for: elicit), arousal (for: arouse)
• Hypernyms:
make, create
• Hyponyms:
strike a chord, touch a chord, invite, ask for, draw,
rekindle, infatuate, prick, inflame, stir up, wake,
ignite, heat, fire up, stimulate, shake, shake up,
excite, stir, anger, upset, discompose, untune,
disconcert, discomfit, shame, hurt, wound, injure,
bruise, offend, spite, overwhelm, overpower, sweep over,
whelm, overcome, overtake, interest
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. evoke or provoke to appear or occur (Freq. 3)
- Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
• Syn:
evoke, call forth, kick up
• Derivationally related forms:
evocation (for: evoke), provocation
• Hypernyms:
cause, do, make
• Hyponyms:
pick
• Verb Group:
raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke,
stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. provide the needed stimulus for (Freq. 3)
• Syn:
stimulate
• Derivationally related forms:
stimulant (for: stimulate), stimulus (for: stimulate), provocative, provocation
• Hypernyms:
challenge
• Hyponyms:
entice, lure, tempt, rejuvenate, jog,
incite, instigate, set off, stir up, agitate, foment
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- They provoke him to write the letter
4. annoy continually or chronically (Freq. 1)
- He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
- This man harasses his female co-workers
• Syn:
harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy,
chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest
• Derivationally related forms:
provocative, provocation, provoker, molestation (for: molest), plague (for: plague), harrier (for: harry), hassle (for: hassle), harasser (for: harass), harassment (for: harass)
• Hypernyms:
annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at,
irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex,
chafe, devil
• Hyponyms:
needle, goad, torment, rag, bedevil,
crucify, dun, frustrate, haze
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The performance is likely to provoke Sue