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Definition
to a human: to provoke or encourage someone to do something — usually something bad and often provoking in an annoying mannerto an animal: to prod with a pointed stick to make it move
As a noun, a goad is a pointed or electric stick used to prod (goad) animals.
- She goaded him into an argument.
goaded = provoked (angered or annoyed)
- She used a stick to goad the cow towards the stall.
- She tried to goad the candidate into saying something extreme.
- ...Wolf Blitzer is trying to goad him into admitting that he is a socialist.Time, 2009 -- http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/09/24/why-i-cant-stand-michael-moore/ (retrieved 10/14/09)
- Usually he submitted with silent dignity to all which he had to go through, but, at times, he was goaded into comment.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- ...he aimed at goading the oppressed into rebellion against the oppressor.Charlotte Bronte -- The Professor
- But he had lost his head; under the goad of Katharine's ridicule he had said too much...Virginia Woolf -- Night and Day
- And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.Judges 3:31 (KJV)
- Is that temptation that doth goad us onShakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- The words of the wise are like goads...Ecclesiastes 12:11 (NIV)
- He could not bring himself to be specific at first; but then fear and loneliness goaded him.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- Pst, pst, like a cat luring a mouse from its hole, they goad each other into quarrels and dissent.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- Yet the very idea of the oath itself—appearing at the end of that first chaotic year—became the final goad that prodded many once-loyal citizens to turn militantly anti-American.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and...John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat
- Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment — far worse than my abandonment — how it goaded me!Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- His siblings would goad Lale into a fight, pointing out that their mother was already married.Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- I watched Stacey closely to see if he was going to allow himself to be goaded by T.J.; he was not.Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Even though Attean annoyed him, Matt was constantly goaded to keep trying to win this strange boy's respect.Elizabeth George Speare -- The Sign of the Beaver
goad = prod or poke
goad = provoke (anger or annoy)
goaded = provoked (caused to taking action)
goad = provoked (anger or annoy into taking action)
goaded = provoked (caused to take action)
goad = provocation (something that angered or annoyed)
goading = provoking or encouraging
goaded = provoked (angered or annoyed into taking action)
goaded = provoked (caused to take action)
goad = provoke (anger or annoy)
goaded = provoked (angered or annoyed into taking action)
goaded = provoked or encouraged
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