Word Meanings - PROVOKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Belching
  of Belch
• Beatifying
  of Beatify
• Bewinter
  To make wintry.
• Bema
  A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
• Bed-molding
  Alt. of Bed-moulding
• BEACHCOMBER
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber. [Amer.]
• Benzile
  A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.
• Befuddle
  To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
• INCENSEBREATHINGINCENSEBREATHING
  Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.
• Beseemly
  Fit; suitable; becoming.
• Betake
  To take or seize.
• Belepered
  of Beleper
• Beautied
  Beautiful; embellished.
• Bewrayer
  One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer.
• Bemist
  To envelop in mist.
• Bedrench
  To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
• BEARTRAPDAM
  A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
• Beplastering
  of Beplaster
• Beggared
  of Beggar
• Besieging
  of Besiege

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