All 3 Uses of
goad
in
Not Without My Daughter
- He had been at the Fourteenth Street Clinic in Detroit for more than a year, a job he took only after I goaded him into it.†
goaded = provoked or prodded
- Aware that Moody was goading me, I still could not sort out reality from his sadistic fantasies.†
*goading = provoking or prodding
- Quietly I goaded Moody toward the decision that it was too much of a chore to go along on a woman's errand.†
goaded = provoked or prodded
Definition:
to provoke or annoy someone into doing something—often something unwise
or:
to prod an animal to move, or the stick used to do so
or:
to prod an animal to move, or the stick used to do so