provocateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pɹəˈvɒk.eɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pɹəˈvɑ(ː).keɪt/
• (Indic) IPA: /prŏ.vɒ.keʈ/, /-vo-/

動詞

provocate (third-person singular simple present provocates, present participle provocating, simple past and past participle provocated)

1. (now nonstandard and non-native speakers' English) To provoke.
   • 1981 December 12, Michael Bronski, Frank Ripploh, “The Meter Is Still Running”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 8:

     The movie called It is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse But the Society In Which He Lives was a provocating movie. It dramatized the situation and got hard reactions from the gays and the straights. But when you look at it now it is full of hate. And it was OK, in a way, to provocate, but it was not done with a lovely touch.

2. To call forth.
3. To challenge.

関連する語

• provocation
• provocator

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