Synonyms

1. evoke
2. call forth
3. kick up

Sentence Examples

1. Speechless, I roll my eyes and climb the steps nervously while making a mental note not to tease and provoke him ever again.
2. That was enough to provoke an indignant cry of rage and bring the others to set upon him like a pack of beagles on a fox.
3. As soon as the vessel discovered the galleys she went about with the object and in the hope of making her escape by her speed but the attempt failed, for the chief galley was one of the fastest vessels afloat, and overhauled her so rapidly that they on board the brigantine saw clearly there was no possibility of escaping, and the rais therefore would have had them drop their oars and give themselves up so as not to provoke the captain in command of our galleys to anger.
4. Appealing greatly to the sadist within, his imagination flourished with the thought of having to provoke her all over again.
5. Faith, sir, by the light God gives me, it seems I must have enchanters too, that persecute me as a creature and limb of your worship, and they must have put that nastiness there in order to provoke your patience to anger, and make you baste my ribs as you are wont to do.
6. The sight of him could provoke her into a crusade to regain her still underage daughter.
7. By mid-day, when they stopped to finish the last of the lake trout, Rune tried again to provoke Kallan.
8. Seeing this, Don Quixote ordered the keeper to take a stick to him and provoke him to make him come out.
9. But when the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the Aranjuez of her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora either and so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst into the room and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in the manner already described for indignities offered to their charms and self-esteem mightily provoke the anger of women and make them eager for revenge.
10. He could summon a ball of air and blast the woodwoman backwards but he did not want to provoke an attack from other nearby woodfolk.