PROVOKING Synonyms

• the act of troubling or annoying someone

• causing irritation or annoyance

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

• causing physical discomfort

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• give an incentive for action

• provoke or stir up

• urge on; cause to act

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• call to mind

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• stop sleeping

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to become awake or conscious

• to begin moving

• to evoke sexual feelings

• annoy continually or chronically

• assail or attack on all sides:

• decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)

• annoy continually or chronically

• annoy continually or chronically

• annoy continually or chronically

• annoy continually or chronically

• cause to lose one's composure

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• derive by reason

• call forth

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• cause to start burning

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• the event of something burning (often destructive)

• the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

• the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

• a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning

• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking

• a severe trial

• intense adverse criticism

• start firing a weapon

• cause to go off

• bake in a kiln so as to harden

• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

• go off or discharge

• drive out or away by or as if by fire

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• destroy by fire

• provide with fuel

• generate an electrical impulse

• become ignited

• start or maintain a fire in

• a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill

• a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate

• cook over or under a grill

• examine thoroughly