Provoke

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Provoke

Provoke : தொந்தரவு கொடு, கோபமூட்டு

Provoke definition

Transitive verb. To call forth; to call into being or action; Especially., 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.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To cause provocation or anger.
  2. To appeal. [A Latinism]