The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provoked; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Provoking.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call
   forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice,
   cry, call. See Voice.]
   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.
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         Obey his voice, provoke him not.         --Ex. xxiii.
                                                  21.
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         Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. --Eph.
                                                  vi. 4.
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         Such acts
         Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
         To make death in us live.                --Milton.
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         Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? --Gray.
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         To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it,
         what it provokes in his own soul.        -- J.
                                                  Burroughs.
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   Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite;
        anger. See Irritate.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

provoked
    adj 1: incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated
           by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the
           child" [syn: aggravated, provoked]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "provoked":
   aggravated, amplified, angry, annoyed, augmented, bothered,
   browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, deliberately provoked,
   disturbed, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated,
   exasperated, galled, griped, heated up, heightened, hotted up,
   huffy, increased, intensified, irked, irritated, magnified, miffed,
   nettled, peeved, piqued, put-out, resentful, riled, roiled,
   ruffled, soured, troubled, vexed, worse, worsened