(~s, provoking, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ 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 ~ him...
I ~d him into doing something really stupid.
VERB: V n, V n into -ing/n
2.
If something ~s a reaction, it causes it.
His election success has ~d a shocked reaction...
VERB: V n