Kindle vs. Provoke — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Kindle and Provoke
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Definitions
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
