Word Meanings - OVERPROVOKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To provoke excessively. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to OVERPROVOKE)

• PROVOKEMENT
  The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.
• PROVOKE
  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;
• OVERPROVOKE
  To provoke excessively. Bp. Hall.