Home › Words › U › unprovokeunprovokeunprovoke means to undo or counter a provocation.EtymologyFrom un- + provoke.verbTo undo or counter a provocation.e.g.“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 lechery” — 1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).