PROVOCATION


Meaning of PROVOCATION in English

(~s)

If you describe a person’s action as ~ or a ~, you mean that it is a reason for someone else to react angrily, violently, or emotionally.

He denies murder on the grounds of ~...

The soldiers fired without ~...

N-VAR: usu prep N

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