3 uses
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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
to an animal: to prod with a pointed stick to make it move
- Aware that Moody was goading me, I still could not sort out reality from his sadistic fantasies.
- 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.
- Quietly I goaded Moody toward the decision that it was too much of a chore to go along on a woman's errand.
There are no more uses of "goad" in Not Without My Daughter.
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