Clues for the word "PROVOKE"
We've had 16 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 21 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on August 30, 2023.
Definition of provoke
- v. t. - 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.
- v. i. - To cause provocation or anger.
- v. i. - To appeal. [A Latinism]
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- LA Times - August 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 24, 2022
- Guardian Everyman - December 17, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 14, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - May 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - December 14, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 06, 2016
- LA Times - September 07, 2015
- Guardian Quick - December 05, 2012
- Jonesin - December 04, 2012
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 07, 2012
- Jonesin - June 05, 2012
- Universal - January 07, 2011
- Guardian Quick - January 06, 2010
- New York Times - March 18, 2009
- Washington Post - March 03, 2009
- Washington Post - August 25, 2008
- Universal - May 27, 2008
- Washington Post - December 17, 2004
- New York Times - October 16, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - December 12, 2000