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Goad
goad
(goads, goading, goaded) If you goad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something. He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response... Charles was always goading me. VERB: V n into n/-ing, V n • Goad is also a noun. His opposition acted as a goad to her determination to succeed. N-COUNT
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English gode, from Old English gad spear, ~; akin to Langobardic gaida spear, and perhaps to Sanskrit hinoti he urges on Date: before 12th century 1. a. something that pains as if by pricking ; thorn b. something that urges or stimulates into action ; spur 2. a pointed rod used to urge on an animal Synonyms: see motive II. transitive verb Date: 1579 1. to incite or rouse as if with a ~ 2. to drive (as cattle) with a ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a spiked stick used for urging cattle forward. 2 anything that torments, incites, or stimulates. --v.tr. 1 urge on with a goad. 2 (usu. foll. by on, into) irritate; stimulate (goaded him into retaliating; goaded me on to win). Etymology: OE gad, rel. to Lombard gaida arrowhead f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. бодец, стрекало 2. возбудитель, стимул necessity was the goad that drove him to perform the task —- только необходимость заставила его выполнить эту задачу 3. подгонять (стадо) to goad an ox —- погонять вола 4. побуждать; стимулировать; подстрекать (также goad on) to goad smb.'s curiosity —- разжигать чье-л. любопытство his conscience goaded him into a confession —- его замучила совесть, и он признался to goad by threat —- вынудить угрозами 5. раздражать to goad to (into) fury —- привести в ярость to goad to madness —- довести до бешенства he was goaded by incessant pain —- непрерывная (непрекращающаяся) боль совсем извела его ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) бодец, стрекало 2) возбудитель, стимул 2. v. 1) подгонять (стадо) (тж. goad on) The oxen moved slowly in the heat, and had to be goaded on by their drivers. 2) побуждать; подстрекать - goad into fury Syn: see spur GOAD into fury привести в ярость; довести до бешенства ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 to make someone do something by annoying them or encouraging them until they do it (goad sb into (doing) sth) (Kathy goaded him into telling her what he had done. | goad sb on) (Duval was goaded on by the need for more money.) 2 to push animals ahead of you with a sharp stick ~2 n 1 a sharp stick for making cattle move forward 2 something that forces someone to do something ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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