English to English
verb
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Arouse pity.
Raise a smile.
Evoke sympathy.
source: WordNet 3.0
- evoke or provoke to appear or occur
Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple.
source: WordNet 3.0
- provide the needed stimulus for
source: WordNet 3.0
- annoy continually or chronically
He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked.
This man harasses his female co-workers.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
- To cause provocation or anger.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
verb
- [provóc] Umaglahì; manggalit; humamon
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
