different between provoke vs madden

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæd?n/
• Homophone: Madden
• Rhymes: -æd?n

Verb

madden (third-person singular simple present maddens, present participle maddening, simple past and past participle maddened)

1. (transitive) To make angry.
2. (transitive) To make insane; to inflame with passion.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become furious.

Antonyms

• tranquilize

Translations

Anagrams

• Dedman, damned, demand, manded

Middle English

Alternative forms

• maddyn, mad, madde, made, medd, medde

Etymology

From mad +? -en (“infinitival suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mad?n/

Verb

madden

1. To be mad or insane; to be afflicted with insanity.
2. To be emotionally overwhelmed or consumed by mood or feelings.
3. To behave idiotically or stupidly; to display stupidity.
4. (rare) To make mad, crazy or insane; to madden.
5. (rare) To emotionally overwhelm.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: mad (obsolete)

References

• “m??dden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-09.