Read full poem →Gone from Florence; indeed! and that is truly provoking;--
Gone to Milan, it seems; then I go also to Milan.
Dictionary Entry
To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
In a Sentence
“Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “provoking”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all!
In short, so provoking a devil was Dick,
That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick;
Read full poem →Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all!
In short, so provoking a devil was Dick,
That we wish’d him full ten times a day at Old Nick;