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provoked
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective provoked has 1 sense
- provoked(s = adj.all) aggravated - incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child"
THESAURUS
provoked
aggravated, amplified, angry, annoyed, augmented, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, deliberately provoked, disturbed, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, galled, griped, heated up, heightened, hotted up, huffy, increased, intensified, irked, irritated, magnified, miffed, nettled, peeved, piqued, put-out, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, soured, troubled, vexed, worse, worsened
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