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English
Etymology
From over- + provoke.
Verb
overprovoke (third-person singular simple present overprovokes, present participle overprovoking, simple past and past participle overprovoked)
- To provoke excessively.
1630–1634, Joseph Hall, “] On the Sight of a Loaded Cart.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , volume VI (Devotional Works), London: C Whittingham, ; for Williams and Smith, , published 1808, →OCLC, page 222:It grieves him , to be over-provoked to our punishment. Then doth he account the cart to crack, yea to break, when he is urged to break forth into just vengeance.