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Goad   /goʊd/   Listen
Goad

verb
(past & past part. goaded; pres. part. goading)
1.
Give heart or courage to.  Synonym: spur.
2.
Urge with or as if with a goad.
3.
Stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick.  Synonym: prick.
4.
Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism.  Synonym: needle.
noun
1.
A pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion.  Synonym: prod.
2.
A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.  Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging.



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"Goad" Quotes from Famous Books



... goad to Fanny. She leaned forward in her chair and talked straight at the big, potent force that sat regarding ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... Will drive by to the cross-roads he had heard nothing of him, and gradually, as the weeks went on, that last reckless night behind the hounds had ceased to represent a cause either of rejoicing or of regret. He had not meant to goad the boy into drinking—of this he was quite sure—and yet when the hunt was over and the two stood just before dawn in Tom Spade's room he had felt the devil enter into him and take possession. The old mad humour of his blood ran high, and as the raw ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... imported; the springs are somehow deranged, so that it hangs entirely on one side; three ladies ride within, and the proprietor sits on the box, surveying in calm delight his two red oxen with their sky-blue yoke, and the tall peasant who drives them with a goad. ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... yoke on one's neck and run on lightly, this helpeth; but to kick against the goad is to make the course perilous. Be it mine to dwell among the good, and to ...
— The Extant Odes of Pindar • Pindar
... "Don't goad me!" Democrates wrung his hands. "I am desperate. Take these papyri, read, pay, then let me never see your face again." He flung the two rolls in the Prince's lap and sat in ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis


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