Antagonize vs. Provoke — What's the Difference?

To incur the dislike of; provoke hostility or enmity in

To incite to anger or resentment

To counteract.

To stir to action or feeling

(transitive) To work against; to oppose especially to incite reaction

To give rise to; bring about

To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

To bring about deliberately; induce

To act in opposition.

(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

Provoke the hostility of;

(transitive) To bring about a reaction.

Act in opposition to

(obsolete) To appeal.

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.

To cause provocation or anger.

To appeal. [A Latinism]

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);

Call forth;

Provide the needed stimulus for

Annoy continually or chronically;