"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

provoke verbo

provoke + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 86
provoke debate • provoke controversy • provoke criticism • provoke outrage • provoke protests • provoke a reaction • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 21
(3) criticism, attack
Kolokacji: 2
(7) violence, unrest, fury, rage
Kolokacji: 4
1. provoke complaints = spowoduj powództwa provoke complaints
2. provoke charges = spowoduj oskarżenia provoke charges
3. provoke intervention = sprowokuj interwencję provoke intervention
  • The Serbs say the Muslims fired on themselves to provoke Western intervention.
  • American rules of engagement forbid strikes against this network for fear of provoking Chinese intervention.
  • Cambria said the dollar's decline would not be enough to provoke intervention by central banks.
  • By pushing too hard they could perhaps provoke Soviet intervention.
  • Unless he was a total fool, he wouldn't provoke national intervention.
  • Any plan that involved putting ten million soldiers so near to the border with China would provoke Chinese intervention.
  • Drug enforcement agents have already suffered casualties in the Andes and elsewhere without provoking military intervention.
  • We don't want to provoke internal tensions and foreign intervention.
  • Such an explosion, these officials fear, would almost certainly provoke a domestic crackdown or Soviet intervention.
  • Or else he considers it inadvisable, as it might provoke intervention by the Highest.
(12) comment, ridicule, derision
Kolokacji: 3
(13) people, symptom
Kolokacji: 2
(15) retaliation, reprisal
Kolokacji: 2
(16) tension, chaos, demand
Kolokacji: 3
(18) alarm, panic, consternation
Kolokacji: 3
(19) backlash, crisis
Kolokacji: 2
(20) China, Israel, Iran
Kolokacji: 3
(21) article, act
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + provoke
Kolokacji: 5
think provoking • try to provoke • avoid provoking • help provoke • risk provoking
provoke + preposición
Kolokacji: 19
provoke by • provoke among • provoke into • provoke in • provoke from • ...
provoke + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 16
deliberately provoke • easily provoked • immediately provoke • eventually provoke • intentionally provoke • ...

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