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unprovokes

unprovokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unprovoke.

Meaning of unprovoke

Verb

unprovoke (third-person singular simple present unprovokes, present participle unprovoking, simple past and past participle unprovoked)

  1. To undo or counter a provocation.
    • Lechery, sir, it provokes and it unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Questions about unprovokes

What is unprovokes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unprovokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unprovoke.

Words near unprovokes in the dictionary

  1. unprovokable
  2. unprovoke
  3. unprovoked
  4. unprovokedly
  5. unprovokedness
  6. unprovokes
  7. unprovoking
  8. unprovokingly
  9. unproxied
  10. unproximate
  11. unprudence

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