different between provoke vs persecute

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French persécuter, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecutor, from Latin persequor, persecutus (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) +? sequor (“follow”) (English sequel). Compare prosecute. Cf. also pursue.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?s?kjut/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??s?kju?t/

Verb

persecute (third-person singular simple present persecutes, present participle persecuting, simple past and past participle persecuted)

1. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death for one's race, sexual identity, adherence to a particular religious creed, or mode of worship.
2. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• oppress, harass, distress, worry, annoy

Related terms

Translations

References

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /per.se?ku?.te/, [p?rs???ku?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /per.se?ku.te/, [p?rs??ku?t??]

Participle

persec?te

1. vocative masculine singular of persec?tus