Word Meanings - PROVOKABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be provoked.

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;
PROVOKING
Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.
PROVOKABLE
That may be provoked.
OVERPROVOKE
To provoke excessively. Bp. Hall.