English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of provoke

provoke

/verb/ भड़काना; उत्तेजित देना; प्रदीप्त करना; चिढ़ाना; खिजलाना; उत्तेजित करना; प्रकुपित करना;

Synonym inflame; stimulate; tease; huff; spurred;

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English Dictionary:

1. Provoke

[v. i.]

- To cause provocation or anger.
- To appeal. [A Latinism]

2. Provoke

[v. t.]

- To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.