Abused
Provoked
Provoked adjective - Incited, especially deliberately, to anger.
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Abused and provoked are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Abused" instead a verb "Provoked".
Nearby Word: provoking
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Jackie tries to make excuses—Fisher apologized, he said he would never do it again, she provoked him—and Roseanne points out that Jackie herself was a cop who heard abused spouses tell her the exact same things.
Source: Series / Roseanne - In A Brother's Price, Keifer Porter abused his wives, psychologically as well as physically, and managed to convince the eldest wives, who could have divorced him, that it was all in good fun (or, in one case, that the thirteen-year-old he tortured and raped provoked him).
Source: Abuse Mistake
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