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"the provoked animal attacked the child"adjectiveincited, especially deliberately, to anger
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- moved being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
- paris (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War
- touched being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
- edward son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)
- affected being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
- aggression violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- stirred being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
- hostility violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
- niobe (Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all; Niobe was turned to stone while bewailing her loss
- moray family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked