Goad
[gəʊd] or [ɡod]
Definition
(noun.) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; 'the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves'.
(verb.) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick.
(verb.) urge with or as if with a goad.
Editor: Ned--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
(v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
Checker: Willa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prick, point.
v. a. [1]. Prick with a goad.[2]. Incite, stimulate, instigate, urge, impel, spur, arouse, stir up, set on.
Inputed by Leonard
Definition
n. a sharp-pointed stick often shod with iron for driving oxen: a stimulus.—v.t. to drive with a goad: to urge forward.
Checker: Mimi
Examples
- Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then soberly and plainly, Mortimer, I goad the schoolmaster to madness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A goad thrust me on, a fever forbade me to rest; a want of companionship maintained in my soul the cravings of a most deadly famine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her soft nature recoiled from this ordeal, which had none of the stimulus of conflict to goad her through it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was not the dullest part of this goad in its galling of Bradley Headstone, that he had made it himself in a moment of incautious anger. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment--far worse than my abandonment--how it goaded me! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Goaded by long-suffering patience the worm will turn. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The _picadores_, who have stationed themselves near him, commence the attack with their lances, and the bull is thus goaded to fury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another moment, and Mr. Thornton might be smitten down,--he whom she had urged and goaded to come to this perilous place. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I should hate to do it, replied Shirley, but I think I could do it, if goaded by certain exigencies which I can imagine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I must be goaded, driven, stung, forced to energy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Rome provoked the war by encouraging the Numidians to encroach upon Carthage until the Carthaginians were goaded to fight in despair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was as if she were rousing him, goading him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- These goads will urge them forwards. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He chafes and goads me till--Bah! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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