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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 manner

to 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.

goad = prod or poke

She tried to goad the candidate into saying something extreme.

goad = provoke (anger or annoy)

...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 on
Shakespeare -- 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

goaded = provoked (caused to taking action)

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

goad = provoked (anger or annoy into taking action)

The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

goaded = provoked (caused to take action)

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

goad = provocation (something that angered or annoyed)

I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and...
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

goading = provoking or encouraging

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

goaded = provoked (angered or annoyed into taking action)

Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment — far worse than my abandonment — how it goaded me!
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

goaded = provoked (caused to take action)

His siblings would goad Lale into a fight, pointing out that their mother was already married.
Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz

goad = provoke (anger or annoy)

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

goaded = provoked (angered or annoyed into taking action)

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

goaded = provoked or encouraged

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