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Difference Between Kindle and Provoke

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Kindle

To build or fuel (a fire).

Provoke

To incite to anger or resentment
Taunts that provoked their rivals.

Kindle

To set fire to; ignite.

Provoke

To stir to action or feeling
A remark that provoked me to reconsider.

Kindle

To cause to glow; light up
The sunset kindled the skies.
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Provoke

To give rise to; bring about
A miscue that provoked laughter.
News that provoked an uproar.

Kindle

To arouse (an emotion, for example)
"No spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion" (George Eliot).

Provoke

To bring about deliberately; induce
Provoke a fight.

Kindle

To catch fire; burst into flame.

Provoke

(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
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Kindle

To become bright; glow.

Provoke

(transitive) To bring about a reaction.

Kindle

To become inflamed.

Provoke

(obsolete) To appeal.

Kindle

To be stirred up; rise.

Provoke

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
Obey his voice, provoke him not.
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
Such actsOf contumacy will provoke the HighestTo make death in us live.
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust?
To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.

Kindle

To give birth to young. Used especially of rabbits.

Provoke

To cause provocation or anger.

Kindle

A brood or litter, especially of kittens.

Provoke

To appeal. [A Latinism]

Kindle

(transitive) To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).

Provoke

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
Arouse pity
Raise a smile
Evoke sympathy

Kindle

To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc).
He kindled an enthusiasm for the project in his fellow workers.

Provoke

Call forth;
Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple

Kindle

To begin to grow or take hold.

Provoke

Provide the needed stimulus for

Kindle

To bring forth young; to give birth.

Provoke

Annoy continually or chronically;
He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
This man harasses his female co-workers

Kindle

A group of kittens.
A kindle of kittens.

Kindle

(of an animal) pregnant

Kindle

To bring forth young.
The poor beast had but lately kindled.

Kindle

To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings.
His breath kindleth coals.

Kindle

Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.
So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither.
Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Kindle

To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Kindle

To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.
On all occasions where forbearance might be called for, the Briton kindles, and the Christian gives way.

Kindle

Catch fire;
The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles

Kindle

Cause to start burning;
The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds

Kindle

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
Arouse pity
Raise a smile
Evoke sympathy

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