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work
goad
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provocation
shit-stir
draw
caffeinate
comb someone's hair the wrong way
provocable
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rouse
forflutter
chafe
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overprovoke
bearbait
quicken
rark up
do one's block
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rage
steam
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riled
incense
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nettled
peeved
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annoyed
miffed
roiled
pissed off
pissed
light the touch-paper
ert
get under someone's skin
forbear
rear
lash out
enturbulate
aroused
disconcert
infuriate
salty
piquant
forset
rant
toss
get up someone's ass
anger
huffy
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ree
cruel
see red
bare one's teeth
ferment
sore
heat
tease
piss off
do someone's head in
irascible
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wise
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urge
shit-stir
draw
caffeinate
comb someone's hair the wrong way
tempt
rouse
forflutter
chafe
ask for it
overprovoke
bearbait
quicken
rark up
do one's block
explode
agitate
inflame
rage
steam
call forth
madden
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hulk out
incense
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light the touch-paper
ert
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rear
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toss
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anger
ree
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verb
- provoke
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- To spark or provoke.
- To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
- To give someone a cue signal.
- To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
noun
- A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
- A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
- The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
- The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
- An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
- A hint or intimation.
verb
- provoke or excite
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- To press onward or forward.
- To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- To press hard upon; to follow closely.
noun
verb
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To tell off; to criticise.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
verb
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
noun
verb
- To inspire or stimulate.
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- To become quicker or faster.
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
noun
verb
verb
- To make a violent or emotional outburst.
- To destroy with an explosion.
- To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- To destroy violently or abruptly.
- Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
- To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- To ejaculate.
- To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- To create an exploded view of.
- To increase suddenly.
verb
- To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
verb
- To make angry.
- To be covered with condensed water vapor.
- To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- To travel by means of steam power.
- To cook with steam.
- To produce or vent steam.
- To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
adj
noun
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- mist, fog
- Pent-up anger.
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Internal energy for motive power.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
adj
verb
verb
- To get angry.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To rise up on the hind legs
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To move; stir.
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- To breed and raise.
- To carve.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
adj
adv
noun
verb
- To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
- To dance rant steps.
- To disseminate one's own opinions in a - typically - one-sided, strong manner.
- To criticize by ranting.
noun
- A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
- A criticism done by ranting.
- A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
verb
verb
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- To become hotter.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
noun
- A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
- A hot spell.
- The output of a heating system.
- An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- The condition or quality of being hot.
- Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- A fastball.
- An undesirable amount of attention.
- A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- One or more firearms.
- Thermal energy.
- The police.
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
verb
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To trim.
- To change places, tasks, etc.
- To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- To exchange.
- To swing or whisk.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- To be swung or whisked.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To shift to another circuit.
adj
- Pertaining to skiing backwards.
- Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
noun
- A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Synonym of rute.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- A change or exchange.
- One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
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