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English to English verb
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call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) |  | Example: arouse pity
raise a smile
evoke sympathy
source: wordnet30
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evoke or provoke to appear or occur | | Example: Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple
source: wordnet30
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provide the needed stimulus for | | source: wordnet30
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annoy continually or chronically | | Example: He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
This man harasses his female co-workers
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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To cause provocation or anger. | | source: webster1913
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