"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
(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
1. provoke alarm = wywołaj alarm provoke alarm
  • But the murder had provoked alarm in the local people who demanded a quick resolution and the police indicted Dolores.
  • Besides, a sudden appearance downtown might have provoked alarm and a quick reaction by the enemy.
  • The intensifying conflict has provoked alarm in the West that many civilian lives will be lost.
  • In Washington, the threat provokes less alarm than mirth.
  • Rather, the words "genetic" and "engineer" seem to provoke alarm among millions of consumers.
  • The events provoked alarm among some rights advocates and international observers.
  • That is far more than the $100 billion of fresh cash the government must raise each year to cover the deficit, which already provokes alarm.
  • Across the state, the animals' increasingly common visits to inhabited areas are provoking alarm.
  • In most nations such a statement might provoke alarm.
  • But the reinterpretation fuss had already provoked alarm at home and abroad.
2. provoke panic = sprowokuj panikę provoke panic
3. provoke consternation = spowoduj konsternację provoke consternation
(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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