say it: pruh-VOHKT
provoked is an adjective meaning "incited, especially deliberately, to anger". It carries one recorded sense.
incited, especially deliberately, to anger
“aggravated by passive resistance”
“the provoked animal attacked the child”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for provoked come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.