Provocar in english
To provoke
pronunciation: tuprəvoʊk part of speech: none
pronunciation: tuprəvoʊk part of speech: none
In gestures
provocar = provoke ; spark off ; trigger ; induce ; bring on ; elicit ; instigate ; tease ; evoke ; titillate ; ignite ; rouse ; stir up ; spark ; twit ; taunt ; tantalise [tantalize, -USA] ; touch off ; set off ; hit + a (raw) nerve ; strike + a nerve (with) ; bring about ; precipitate ; incite ; touch + a (raw) nerve ; give + rise to ; give + cause to ; give + occasion to ; call forth ; rabble-rouse ; cause to + happen ; razz ; push + Posesivo + buttons ; push + (all of) + Posesivo + buttons ; stir + things up ; bring forth ; set in + motion.
Example: 3 different kinds of paper were deacidified by different aqueous and nonaqueous methods, and then treated to provoke accelerated attack of air pollutants.Example: Like the librarians and the bookshop staff, the club members are catalysts who spark off that fission which will spread from child to child an awareness of books and the habit of reading them.Example: Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.Example: Then, the reference librarian has better justification to buy and perhaps to induce others to contribute to the purchase.Example: In frequent cases, unionization is brought on by the inept or irresponsible action of management.Example: This article looks at ways in which librarians in leadership roles can elicit the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of the organisation.Example: The first mass removal of material was instigated by the trade unions and although admitted in 1932 to have been a mistake, the purges proved difficult to stop.Example: I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.Example: It is known that in ancient Rome the complexity of the administrative job evoked considerable development of management techniques.Example: However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.Example: In turn, that change ignited a body of literature that discussed those cataloguers' future roles.Example: The spirit, if not the content, of Marx can be the joust to rouse the sleepy theory of academic sociology.Example: The goal of this guidebook is to help writers activate their brains to stir up more and better ideas and details.Example: The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.Example: Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.Example: The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.Example: He may have wished to tease and tantalize his readers by insoluble problems.Example: This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.Example: The dollar has been losing value, weakening its status as the world's major currency and setting off jitters in the international financial system.Example: Based on their account, it seems obvious that Beauperthuy hit a raw nerve among some of the medical research leaders of the day.Example: His plethoric prose produced by a prodigious placement of words struck a nerve.Example: Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.Example: What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.Example: It is illegal to operate websites inciting terrorism under the Terrorism Act.Example: Obama's election seems to have touched a raw nerve in conservative white America, unleashing a torrent of right-wing rage unseen in this country.Example: The method of indexing called post-coordinate indexing gives rise to physical forms of indexes which differ from the more 'traditional' catalogues mentioned above.Example: That crucial evidence was withheld from the final report could give cause to bring charges of criminal negligence.Example: Many soldiers took advantage of the impoverished conditions giving occasion to assaults, rapes and murders.Example: In most people, this perfectly natural self-destructive subpersonality sleeps unless extreme conditions call it forth to influence events.Example: The head of the group representing Catholic school principals in Northern Ireland accuses the first minister of rabble rousing.Example: By virtue of Bush's lack of leadership, he said, the president more or less caused it to happen.Example: I used to razz her about her fear of food, an unfortunate remnant of her history as a model.Example: You have got to stand up and put her in her place until then she will keep trying to push your buttons.Example: My wife says I push all of her buttons but, unfortunately, I still haven't been able to find the 'mute' button.Example: I think Pope Francis wants to stir things up and allow people to raise questions.Example: After faking her own death, Nora disguised herself and went undercover while biding her time to bring forth the world's ruin.Example: If someone reports that a member of the staff is drunk while on the job, the supervisor must immediately set in motion the prescribed personnel procedures for verifying the charge, issuing a warning, observing and documenting future performance, and, if necessary, initiating a dismissal action.more:
» provocar arcadas = make + Nombre + retch .
Example: I imagine that all manner of physical contact is anathema to her, the very idea of exchanging body fluids must make her retch.» provocar cambios = wreak + changes .
Example: The changes wrought by information technology have been at the margins.» provocar controversia = arouse + controversy .
Example: When published, the ninety-one rules covering author and title headings and description aroused great controversy.» provocar críticas = draw + criticism .
Example: Plan for golf course in impoverished Kentucky county draws much criticism.» provocar el debate = prompt + discussion ; spark + debate .
Example: E-mail reference also has prompted discussions in the literature about the relative advantages and disadvantages inherent in providing this service. Example: Those that couldn't read sat in semi-circles listening to books being read to them, asking questions, sparking debate and dialogue.» provocar escarnio = evoke + a response .
Example: The sender hope to evoke a response in the receiver which will be similar to his own.» provocar estragos = create + havoc ; wreak + havoc ; cause + havoc .
Example: Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere. Example: I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system. Example: It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.» provocar estragos en = play + havoc with .
Example: To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users.» provocar heridas múltiples = cause + multiple injuries .
Example: This is because car accidents often occur at high velocities causing multiple injuries.» provocar la controversia = court + controversy .
Example: Panizzi had a reputation for courting controversy at the British Museum and a knack for making enemies.» provocar la ira de Alguien = incur + Posesivo + wrath .
Example: He had been beloved of the gods, but his foolish arrogance had incurred their wrath, and the rest of his unwearied life was the punishment for his pride.» provocar la subida de = drive up .
Example: The ongoing drought in the US which has hit corn and soy growers could drive up food prices worldwide.» provocar lesiones múltiples = cause + multiple injuries .
Example: This is because car accidents often occur at high velocities causing multiple injuries.» provocar menosprecio = evoke + scorn .
Example: Thus Panizzi, with a eye on the printed book catalog demanding stable entries, was led to rule that the works of an author should be entered under his earliest name which evoked the scorn of his critics.» provocar + Posesivo + ira = excite + Posesivo + wrath .
Example: To stand up to Murdoch and take the slightest step to curb his power or even apply the law was to excite his wrath.» provocar sospechas = stir + suspicion .
Example: Their presence in society may stir suspicion.» provocar una avalancha de = set off + an avalanche of .
Example: Her first album generated rave reviews in children's press and set off an avalanche of awards.» provocar una crisis = precipitate + a crisis ; send + Nombre + into meltdown .
Example: Saddam will play for time and avoid precipitating any crises that could cost him his hold on power. Example: He sent fans into meltdown when he revealed he had chopped off his trademark floppy hair.» provocar una enfermedad = cause + a disease .
Example: Compounds found in cat's claw may also work to kill viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms that cause disease.» provocar una guerra = ignite + a war ; precipitate + a war ; trigger + war ; kindle + a war .
Example: The article is entitled 'Free MEDLINE ignites vendor wars'. Example: As important as these activists were, however, it was a set of policy ideas more than the individuals themselves that precipitated the war. Example: The 1979 incident was not the only false alarm to nearly trigger nuclear war. Example: Now this terrible message was good news to Florus; and because his design was to have a war kindled, he gave the ambassadors no answer at all.» provocar una pelea = pick + a fight .
Example: Machiavelli advised rulers facing unpopularity at home to consider picking a fight with some other nation, noting that a threat from some foreign power tends to unite people and help them to forget their differences.» provocar una protesta = call forth + protest .
Example: This has called forth a flood of protests.» provocar una reacción = cause + reaction ; provoke + a reaction .
Example: Much of the negative reaction may be caused by not designing a plan suitable for the book market and the needs of research libraries. Example: These developments provoked a nationwide reaction from both librarians and the public which was expressed in the national and local press.» provocar un ataque = provoke + an attack .
Example: 3 different kinds of paper were deacidified by different aqueous and nonaqueous methods, and then treated to provoke accelerated attack of air pollutants.» provocar un cambio = bring about + change .
Example: The moment we compromise among ourselves to adopt rules that are incompatible with ideology then I think we are merely providing the necessity before very long to have these changes brought about.» provocar un debate = ignite + a debate ; stir + a debate .
Example: Paid-for promotions in bookshops have ignited a debate about sales integrity. Example: The article is entitled 'Eye on publishing: Public Lending Right stirs debate'.» provocar un diálogo = elicit + a dialogue .
Example: To do this is to thwart the goal of eliciting genuine dialogue -- candid, searching, and purposeful discussion -- and motivating students to think, to study, to weigh ideas, and to develop their own solutions.» provocar un gran alboroto = make + a splash .
Example: Israeli wine may be young, but it's making a splash worldwide.» provocar un gran revuelo = set + the cat among the pigeons ; put + the cat among the pigeons ; stir up + a hornet's nest ; raise + Cain ; raise + hell ; send + Nombre + into meltdown .
Example: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene. Example: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control. Example: They feared its theme of anti-Semitism would simply stir up a hornet's nest and preferred to deal with the problem quietly. Example: Her husband and his father and stepmother owe you an apology for raising Cain at your wedding. Example: American progressives have in recent decades gotten too shy, or too afraid, to raise hell about injustice and unfairness. Example: He sent fans into meltdown when he revealed he had chopped off his trademark floppy hair.» provocar violencia = cause + violence .
Example: The violence wasn't caused by war vets but by football hooligans.