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- Dictionarygoad/ɡəʊd/
verb
- 1. provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction: "he was trying to goad her into a fight"
- 2. drive (an animal) with a spiked stick: "the cowboys goaded their cattle across the meadows"
noun
- 1. a spiked stick used for driving cattle. Similar
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The meaning of GOAD is to incite or rouse as if with a goad. How to use goad in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Goad.
GOAD definition: 1. to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them…. Learn more.
Goad definition: a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.. See examples of GOAD used in a sentence.
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.
A goad is a pointy stick or other instrument used to prod something along. To goad is to poke something with that pointy stick. Either way, the pointiness is really essential for making things leap into action.
to make someone angry or annoyed so that they react in the way that you want: [ + into + doing sth ] They tried to goad us into attacking the police. (Definition of goad from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Definition of goad verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'goad'. If you goad someone, you deliberately make them feel angry or irritated, often causing them to react by doing something. [...] More.
Goad Definition. A sharp-pointed stick used in driving oxen. An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus. Any driving impulse; spur. To drive with or as with a goad; prod into action; urge on. To encourage or stimulate.
1. a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod. 2. anything that pricks, wounds, or urges on like such a stick; stimulus. v.t. 3. to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite. [before 900; Middle English gode, Old English gād; compare Langobardic gaida spearhead] goad′like`, adj.
