معنى كلمة provoke | الترجمة والشرح والأمثلة

معنى كلمة provoke بالعربي

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النطق: /pɹəˈvəʊk/ | /pɹəˈvoʊk/ | [pɹəˈvɛʊk]

provoke

To provoke someone means to annoy them on purpose to cause violence.

The older boy provoked Paul by calling him mean names.

Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
Thence Sish went forth into the world to destroy its cities, and to provoke his hours to assail all things, and to batter against them with the rust and with the dust.

harass, set off, vex, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize, bother

provokes, provoking, provoked