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What does provocation mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word provocation? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something
  2. Something that provokes; a provocative act
  3. (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
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Moore and Girling denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter under provocation.
Baseline sensitivity to grass pollen as measured by the conjunctival provocation test did not differ.
I can't remember the last time I lost my rag with anyone without a high degree of provocation or angst being involved.
Alternatively the defence say she may have acted under provocation of a type which reduces murder to manslaughter in law.
This is a time for cool heads and reasoned arguments, not for bluster and provocation.
In some cases defendants run the two qualified defences of provocation and diminished responsibility in tandem.

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