Difference between Stimulate and Provoke | Stimulate vs Provoke

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: VERB

Cause to occur rapidly
Provide the needed stimulus for
Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
Act as a stimulant
Stir feelings in
To encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
Cause to be alert and energetic

Provide the needed stimulus for
Call forth
Annoy continually or chronically
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
To bring about a reaction.
Evoke or provoke to appear or occur

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To increase temporarily the activity of (a body organ or system, for example).
To cause to desire to have sex; arouse sexually.
To cause to be interested or engaged.
To rouse to action or increased activity; excite: : provoke.
To act or serve as a stimulant or stimulus.
To excite or invigorate (a person, for example) with a stimulant.

To cause provocation or anger.
To appeal. [A Latinism]

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: TRANSITIVE VERB

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion.
To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.

To stir to action or feeling.
To give rise to; bring about.
To bring about deliberately; induce.
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.
To incite to anger or resentment.

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: OTHER WORD TYPES

Cause to do
Cause to act in a specified manner
To act as a stimulus.
Synonyms To encourage, impel, urge, instigate, provoke, whet, foment, kindle, stir up.
Specifically, to affect by the use of intoxicating drinks.
In physiology, to quicken temporarily some functional or trophic process in.
To prick; goad; excite, rouse, or animate to action or more vigorous exertion by some effective motive or by persuasion; spur on; incite.

To call forth or out; challenge; summon.
To call forth; cause; occasion; instigate.
To excite to anger or passion; exasperate; irritate; enrage.
Synonyms and To stir up, rouse, awake, induce, incite, impel, kindle.
Irritate, Incense, etc. (see exasperate), offend, anger, chafe, nettle, gall.
To appeal.
To produce anger or irritation. Compare provoking.
To stimulate to action; move; excite; arouse.

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: RELATED WORDS

Shake up, Rush, Brace, Energise, Shake, Cause, Get, Make, Stir, Hasten, Arouse, Provoke, Excite, Induce, Energize

Kick up, Hassle, Plague, Fire, Beset, Molest, Chivvy, Raise, Harass, Kindle, Stimulate, Enkindle, Evoke, Elicit, Arouse

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: DESCRIBE WORDS

Have, Rush, Brace, Energise, Shake, Cause, Get, Make, Stir, Hasten, Arouse, Provoke, Excite, Induce, Energize

Harry, Hassle, Plague, Fire, Beset, Molest, Chivvy, Raise, Harass, Kindle, Stimulate, Enkindle, Evoke, Elicit, Arouse

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

Enables user to find and stimulate acupuncture points.
Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies?
We need more to stimulate jobs and stuff.
EDA issues construction grants to stimulate economic development.
Stimulate MMC with a prokinetic and physical activity.
It will also stimulate greater accountability and transparency.
Patient requires drug therapy to stimulate gastrointestinal motility.
They are called stimulants because they stimulate nerve cells to produce more of the deficient neurotransmitter not because they stimulate or arouse the individual.
Methylxanthines stimulate the CNS, act on the kidney to stimulate diuresis, and increase the contractility of cardiac and skeletal muscle.
Whereas eccentric exercises stimulate size, concentric exercises stimulate strength.

Send you archers forward to provoke the bastards.
Is your offer strong enough to provoke action?
Do not argue or otherwise provoke the person.
NLWs, they may hesitate to provoke a confrontation.
There is avoidance of situations which provoke anxiety.
Similarly, food and smell can provoke strong memories.
How can remote looking provoke such physical ricochet?
China is not something your country can provoke.
Provoke fresh thinking and shake up conventional wisdom.
You have the potential - we provoke it.

STIMULATE vs PROVOKE: QUESTIONS

How to control or stimulate vomiting (monogastric)?
How does adrenaline stimulate lipolysis and ketogenesis?
Do Dietary BCAAs stimulate muscle protein synthesis?
How does glucagon stimulate hepatic gluconeogenesis?
Does eccentric muscle contraction stimulate hypertrophy?
Does DNA damage stimulate homologous recombination?
Does 25-hydroxycholecalciferol stimulate muscle metabolism?
Can sports stimulate sustainable economic activities?
What factors stimulate hepatic lipoprotein synthesis?
Does testosterone stimulate erythrocyte production?

Why did the invasion of Panama provoke international outrage?
Can You provoke a 5e opportunity attack when teleport?
Do Sri Lankan Buddhist chauvinists provoke violence against Muslims?
How does the Dix-Hallpike maneuver provoke nystagmus?
Does optimism or pessimism always provoke policy preference?
How can teachers provoke Good Thinking in students?
Did George Soros install Zelensky to provoke Putin?
Does family violence happen because women provoke men?
Do invisible creatures provoke opportunity attack 5e?
Does dissonant Whispers provoke opportunity attacks?

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