goad
gohd
- n a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
- n a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- v give heart or courage to
- v urge with or as if with a goad
- v stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- v goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
- Finally, intravenous fluids were administered to goad what little circulation he had left.
- Not only did Kremlin agents fail to goad the Balts into armed resistance, which would have provided a pretext for more bloodshed, but local ethnic Russians also refused to form a .
- As I type, the populist filmmaker is on CNN, where Wolf Blitzer is trying to goad him into admitting that he is a socialist.