transcription, транскрипция: [ prəvoʊk ]
( provokes, provoking, provoked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you provoke someone, you deliberately annoy them and try to make them behave aggressively.
He started beating me when I was about fifteen but I didn’t do anything to provoke him...
I provoked him into doing something really stupid.
VERB : V n , V n into -ing / n
2.
If something provokes a reaction, it causes it.
His election success has provoked a shocked reaction...
VERB : V n