different between provoke vs invigorate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French provoquer, from Old French, from Latin pr?voc?re. Doublet of provocate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???v??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???vo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

provoke (third-person singular simple present provokes, present participle provoking, simple past and past participle provoked)

1. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
   • Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

2. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
   • 1881, John Burroughs, Pepacton

     To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
3. (obsolete) To appeal.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (bring about a reaction): bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, grill, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip up; see also Thesaurus:incite

Derived terms

• provocation
• provocative

Related terms

• evoke
• invoke
• provocateur
• revoke

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• envigorate
• envigourate (rare)
• invigourate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v????e?t/

Verb

invigorate (third-person singular simple present invigorates, present participle invigorating, simple past and past participle invigorated)

1. (transitive) To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to.

   Exercise is invigorating.

2. (transitive) To heighten or intensify.
3. (transitive) To give life or energy to.

   The cold water invigorated him.

4. (transitive) To make lively.

Synonyms

• (to impart vigor, strength, or vitality): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

Related terms

• invigorating
• invigoratingly
• invigoration
• invigorator

Translations

See also

• inspire, exalt
• animate, enliven, liven
• reinvigorate
• quicken

Anagrams

• ignorative