overprovoke
English
Etymology
over- + provoke
Verb
overprovoke (third-person singular simple present overprovokes, present participle overprovoking, simple past and past participle overprovoked)
- To provoke excessively.
- 1630, Joseph Hall, Occasional meditations
- It grieves him, to be overprovoked to our punishment
- 1630, Joseph Hall, Occasional meditations