Annoy continually or chronically.
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Evoke or provoke to appear or occur.
Provide the needed stimulus for.
1 But such measures are only likely to provoke further violence, said Hanif.
2 African Union peacekeepers said the attack was intended to provoke return fire.
3 Unfortunately, hooks's statements provoke , without creating space for difference or substantive debate.
4 He wondered how soon the invasion would provoke fresh forms of violence.
5 Economic collapse will provoke sharp differences between parties and dramatic government action.
6 Any attempt to avoid legislation could well provoke a further legal challenge.
7 No doubt these 'beggars' were communist agitators trying to provoke an incident.
8 Ukraine's interim president says Russia is trying to provoke Ukraine into war.
9 Few ventured to meet him in debate, and none to provoke him.
10 It meant that now the al-Qaeda desire was to provoke sectarian violence.
11 Or was he looking for a new way to provoke the Kremlin?
12 Previous research suggests that choices of decreasing value should provoke decreasing anxiety.
13 The large scale unwinding of pair trades can provoke severe market volatility.
14 It could provoke more violence and catch more civilians in the crossfire.
15 Thus the same letter could provoke all shades of the political spectrum.
16 Those factors could provoke relapses in workers recovering from addiction, they said.
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