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Definition of goad in English: goadverb ɡəʊdɡoʊd 1with object Provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction. he was trying to goad her into a fight Example sentencesExamples - Still, I haven't found a mobile phone tiny enough to goad me into switching.
- He insulted me and repeatedly pushed my shoulder, hoping to goad me into hitting him.
- I swear that the Land Transport Safety Authority is goading us.
- But if the writer is attempting to goad me into an abusive response, again, why?
- From time to time, their suffering goads working people to revolt.
- In the new millennium you won't need to fight about spotted owls or old growth or any other flavor-of-the-moment crisis cooked up by environmentalists who are trying to goad you into a fight for the purpose of enriching their coffers.
- I didn't realise that people would attempt to goad us into aggression at regular intervals.
- But in any issue, we should be prepared to think carefully, and not let our reaction to extremists goad us into overlooking any Biblical principles that apply.
- Two of the group then approached him, trying to goad him into a fight, then demanded he hand over his Nike sports bag.
- Someone who rubs you the wrong way, who gets on your every nerve, who always seems to be trying to goad you into acts of violence and mayhem?
- When I used to meet him regularly outside the Brompton Oratory after his Sunday devotions, it took little prompting to goad him into a diatribe against his latest enemy.
- Of course in too many cases, if the insurgents bait us and goad us into leveling buildings and homes, the people inside will then hate us (even if they did not before) and we have created more recruits for the guerillas.
- Jones was ecstatic, and started gesturing to a section of Australian spectators who had been goading him, while the rest of the team ran around like headless chickens.
- At one stage I thought she was deliberately trying to goad him into walking out - but somehow it didn't seem like it was enough.
- After a certain point, I'd give up, at which point Ed would goad me into another confrontation where he would do the same thing.
- In his range of interests and enjoyments, he keeps goading me (in a good-natured way) to broaden my own horizons.
- He's the nasty who goads opponents with vocal insults, and more noticeably, a series of physical kicks and digs when the ball is miles distant.
- In between all this, he was busy goading the children to ask questions.
- Of course, she probably only called me to try and goad me into reading her comment and replying (thus completing the cycle and fulfilling the prophecy).
- In today's fast-paced world, children are goaded to study more and more.
Synonyms provoke, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, hound, badger, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, excite, inflame, work/fire up, impel, pressure, pressurize, dragoon, prompt, induce, encourage, urge, inspire 2with object and adverbial of direction Drive (an animal) with a spiked stick. the cowboys goaded their cattle across the meadows
noun ɡəʊdɡoʊd 1A spiked stick used for driving cattle. Example sentencesExamples - His upper right hand holds a goad to remove obstacles from the way as he propels mankind forward on the eternal path.
- Nagasena asks whether then the chariot is the pole, the axle, the wheels,… the reins and the goad all together.
- The mahout directs the elephant using his voice, hands, feet or a goad.
- The spurs on the legs were goads; knee goads, ankle goads, and foot goads.
- Ankusha, the goad held in Lord Ganesha's right hand is used to remove obstacles from dharma's path.
- In his upper right hand Ganesha holds a goad, which helps him propel mankind forward on the eternal path and remove obstacles from the way.
- I have a lad driving the oxen with a goad, who is now hoarse because of the cold and from shouting.
- The Ripon report suggests widespread use of sticks and electric goads, and says that some animals had to be dragged into and out of trucks and lorries.
- Below him stands the image of Salim Kumar, the mahout, with his trademark grin and the elephant goad.
- These sort of things scare the cattle, and then you have to like do a lot of rough handling to get them to go by there, like a wad of electric goads.
Synonyms prod, spiked stick, spike, staff, crook, pole, rod Indian ankus archaic prick - 1.1 A thing that stimulates someone into action.
for him the visit was a goad to renewed effort Example sentencesExamples - Given the diversity of seminaries, neither would it be fair to rank them comparatively based on selectivity and other factors that are goads to quality in fields such as business and law.
- It's also a justifiable goad to the United States to step up and reclaim the role of leader when it comes to human rights.
- In some ways it seems on his account that music is a way of creating society, and thus is a goad to further selection, a social selection as it were, for greater complexity of hominid capabilities.
- True sanctity serves as a goad and a promise, but is not a requirement for church membership.
- A final aspect of the story to be told in this paper is that perceived prejudice and discrimination are also goads to protest, militancy, and agitation for social change by those on the receiving end of intolerance.
- But in the end, methodology was the real goad spurring on most of the participants.
- Today courts reflect the national mood: as American Catholics increasingly grow restive with the status quo, the courts themselves work as a goad, driving laity and leadership alike.
- Even if a picture suggested by theory were not precisely correct, intelligent speculation is a goad for more intense experimental scrutiny.
- Eros is the age-old goad and rarely the sex act itself.
- Capital punishment is not a deterrent to these terrorists, but a goad.
- What I intended as a provocative metaphorical goad, Hart took literally as a definite and categorical challenge, which I welcome.
- The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails.
- Murray, who tells the story over six nights at Zuckerman's rural New England hideaway, was the writer's high-school English teacher, his goad and guru.
- Second, Richmond promoted private enterprise with numerous official goads and incentives.
- Suffering is not a punishment for wrongdoing, but a goad to rectification.
- Such engagements are not to be avoided, but rather treated as goads to creative thought and practice.
- Chinese Staff serves as an intermediary between immigrant workers and labor enforcement agencies, acting as a goad to both sides.
- Assimilation properly channeled and exploited can thus become a kind of blessing, for assimilation bears within it a certain seminal power which serves as a challenge and a goad to renewed creativity.
Synonyms stimulus, incentive, encouragement, stimulant, stimulation, inducement, fillip, impetus, impulse, spur, prod, prompt incitement motive, motivation informal kick in the pants, kick up the backside, shot in the arm
Origin Old English gād, of Germanic origin. Rhymes abode, bestrode, bode, code, commode, corrode, download, encode, erode, explode, forebode, implode, load, lode, middle-of-the-road, mode, node, ode, offload, outrode, road, rode, sarod, Spode, strode, toad, upload, woad Definition of goad in US English: goadverbɡōdɡoʊd [with object]1Provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate some action or reaction. he goaded her on to more daring revelations Example sentencesExamples - Jones was ecstatic, and started gesturing to a section of Australian spectators who had been goading him, while the rest of the team ran around like headless chickens.
- Two of the group then approached him, trying to goad him into a fight, then demanded he hand over his Nike sports bag.
- In today's fast-paced world, children are goaded to study more and more.
- He's the nasty who goads opponents with vocal insults, and more noticeably, a series of physical kicks and digs when the ball is miles distant.
- But if the writer is attempting to goad me into an abusive response, again, why?
- At one stage I thought she was deliberately trying to goad him into walking out - but somehow it didn't seem like it was enough.
- Of course, she probably only called me to try and goad me into reading her comment and replying (thus completing the cycle and fulfilling the prophecy).
- After a certain point, I'd give up, at which point Ed would goad me into another confrontation where he would do the same thing.
- I swear that the Land Transport Safety Authority is goading us.
- But in any issue, we should be prepared to think carefully, and not let our reaction to extremists goad us into overlooking any Biblical principles that apply.
- In between all this, he was busy goading the children to ask questions.
- When I used to meet him regularly outside the Brompton Oratory after his Sunday devotions, it took little prompting to goad him into a diatribe against his latest enemy.
- From time to time, their suffering goads working people to revolt.
- Someone who rubs you the wrong way, who gets on your every nerve, who always seems to be trying to goad you into acts of violence and mayhem?
- Still, I haven't found a mobile phone tiny enough to goad me into switching.
- I didn't realise that people would attempt to goad us into aggression at regular intervals.
- In the new millennium you won't need to fight about spotted owls or old growth or any other flavor-of-the-moment crisis cooked up by environmentalists who are trying to goad you into a fight for the purpose of enriching their coffers.
- In his range of interests and enjoyments, he keeps goading me (in a good-natured way) to broaden my own horizons.
- He insulted me and repeatedly pushed my shoulder, hoping to goad me into hitting him.
- Of course in too many cases, if the insurgents bait us and goad us into leveling buildings and homes, the people inside will then hate us (even if they did not before) and we have created more recruits for the guerillas.
Synonyms provoke, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, hound, badger, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, excite, inflame, fire up, work up, impel, pressure, pressurize, dragoon, prompt, induce, encourage, urge, inspire 2Drive or urge (an animal) on with a goad.
nounɡōdɡoʊd 1A spiked stick used for driving cattle. Example sentencesExamples - I have a lad driving the oxen with a goad, who is now hoarse because of the cold and from shouting.
- The spurs on the legs were goads; knee goads, ankle goads, and foot goads.
- In his upper right hand Ganesha holds a goad, which helps him propel mankind forward on the eternal path and remove obstacles from the way.
- Ankusha, the goad held in Lord Ganesha's right hand is used to remove obstacles from dharma's path.
- The mahout directs the elephant using his voice, hands, feet or a goad.
- Below him stands the image of Salim Kumar, the mahout, with his trademark grin and the elephant goad.
- His upper right hand holds a goad to remove obstacles from the way as he propels mankind forward on the eternal path.
- These sort of things scare the cattle, and then you have to like do a lot of rough handling to get them to go by there, like a wad of electric goads.
- Nagasena asks whether then the chariot is the pole, the axle, the wheels,… the reins and the goad all together.
- The Ripon report suggests widespread use of sticks and electric goads, and says that some animals had to be dragged into and out of trucks and lorries.
Synonyms prod, spiked stick, spike, staff, crook, pole, rod - 1.1 A thing that stimulates someone into action.
for him the visit was a goad to renewed effort Example sentencesExamples - The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails.
- Given the diversity of seminaries, neither would it be fair to rank them comparatively based on selectivity and other factors that are goads to quality in fields such as business and law.
- Assimilation properly channeled and exploited can thus become a kind of blessing, for assimilation bears within it a certain seminal power which serves as a challenge and a goad to renewed creativity.
- Even if a picture suggested by theory were not precisely correct, intelligent speculation is a goad for more intense experimental scrutiny.
- Murray, who tells the story over six nights at Zuckerman's rural New England hideaway, was the writer's high-school English teacher, his goad and guru.
- Chinese Staff serves as an intermediary between immigrant workers and labor enforcement agencies, acting as a goad to both sides.
- A final aspect of the story to be told in this paper is that perceived prejudice and discrimination are also goads to protest, militancy, and agitation for social change by those on the receiving end of intolerance.
- Suffering is not a punishment for wrongdoing, but a goad to rectification.
- But in the end, methodology was the real goad spurring on most of the participants.
- It's also a justifiable goad to the United States to step up and reclaim the role of leader when it comes to human rights.
- Second, Richmond promoted private enterprise with numerous official goads and incentives.
- In some ways it seems on his account that music is a way of creating society, and thus is a goad to further selection, a social selection as it were, for greater complexity of hominid capabilities.
- True sanctity serves as a goad and a promise, but is not a requirement for church membership.
- Capital punishment is not a deterrent to these terrorists, but a goad.
- Today courts reflect the national mood: as American Catholics increasingly grow restive with the status quo, the courts themselves work as a goad, driving laity and leadership alike.
- Such engagements are not to be avoided, but rather treated as goads to creative thought and practice.
- What I intended as a provocative metaphorical goad, Hart took literally as a definite and categorical challenge, which I welcome.
- Eros is the age-old goad and rarely the sex act itself.
Synonyms stimulus, incentive, encouragement, stimulant, stimulation, inducement, fillip, impetus, impulse, spur, prod, prompt
Origin Old English gād, of Germanic origin. |