provoke

provoke verb actuate, affront, aggravate, agitate, anger, animate, annoy, antagonize, arouse, awaken, badger, bait, begin, beset, bother, bring about, call forth, cause, challenge, defy, discompose, displease, disquiet, distress, drive, effect, egg on, elicit, enkindle, enrage, envenom, evoke, exasperate, excite, fire, fret, gall, generate, give offense, give origin, give rise, grate, harass, heckle, hector, hound, impel, incense, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, insult, irk, irritate, kindle, madden, motivate, move, move to anger, nettle, occasion, offend, originate, perturb, pique, plague, promote, prompt, propel, push, put out, put out of humor, rally, roil, rouse, spur, sting, stir, stir up, taunt, tease, torment, try one's paaience, vex, work into a passion, work up, wound

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See also: activate, aggravate, agitate, annoy, antagonize, badger, bait, cause, coax, contrive, discommode, discompose, evoke, exacerbate, foment, generate, goad, harass, harrow, harry, hector, incense, incite, inspire, insult, irritate, lobby, lure, mistreat, molest, occasion, offend, originate, persecute, perturb, pique, plague, press, prompt, spirit, stimulate, urge