Synonyms of the word

goad

• n. A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
• v. To prod with a goad.
• v. To encourage or stimulate.
• v. To incite or provoke.

beset

• v. (transitive) To surround or hem in.
• v. (transitive) To attack, especially from all sides.
• v. (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

chevy

• n. A hunt or pursuit.
• n. A cry used in hunting.
• n. The game of prisoners' bars.
• v. to hunt or chase.

chivvy

• v. To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
• v. To coerce, as by persistent request.
• v. To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
• v. To pursue as in a hunt.
• n. A goad.

chivy

• n. A hunt or chase.
• n. A hunting cry.
• v. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
• v. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
• v. (intransitive) To scurry.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

encourage

• v. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
• v. To spur on, strongly recommend.
• v. To foster, give help or patronage.

encouragement

• n. The act of encouraging.
• n. Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive.
• n. Words or actions that increase someone's confidence.
• n. The feeling of being encouraged.

goading

• v. present participle of goad.
• n. The act by which somebody is goaded.

harass

• v. To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
• v. To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
• v. To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
• n. (obsolete) devastation; waste.
• n. (obsolete) worry; harassment.

harry

• v. (transitive) To harass, stress, badger, bother; to distress, trouble, or tire with demands, threats, or…
• v. To strip; to lay waste.

hassle

• n. Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
• n. A fight or argument.
• n. An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
• v. To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
• v. To pick a fight or start an argument.

incite

• v. To rouse, stir up or excite.

jab

• n. A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
• n. (boxing) A short straight punch.
• n. (Britain) A medical injection.
• n. (Britain) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
• n. (US, figuratively) A verbal annoyance.
• v. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
• v. To deliver a quick punch.
• v. (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection.

molest

• v. To annoy intentionally.
• v. To disturb or tamper with.
• v. To sexually abuse, especially a minor.

needle

• n. A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting, acupuncture, tattooing,…
• n. Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock,…
• n. A long, thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph, e.g. a compass needle.
• n. A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
• n. A long, pointed leaf found on some conifers.
• n. (informal, usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
• n. (programming, PHP) A text string that is searched for within another string.
• v. To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
• v. (transitive) To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To form in the shape of a needle.

plague

• n. (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused…
• n. (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
• n. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
• n. A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
• v. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
• v. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

prick

• n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
• n. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
• n. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
• n. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
• n. A small pointed object.
• n. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
• n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
• n. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
• n. The footprint of a hare.
• n. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
• n. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
• v. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
• v. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
• v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
• v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to…
• v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
• v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
• v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an…
• v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular…
• v. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
• v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
• v. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
• v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
• v. To aim at a point or mark.
• v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.

prod

• v. To poke, to push, to touch.
• v. To encourage, to prompt.
• n. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
• n. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
• n. A poke.
• n. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
• n. (computing, programming) production.

prodding

• v. present participle of prod.
• n. The act of giving a prod.

provoke

• v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
• v. (obsolete) To appeal.

spur

• n. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse…
• n. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
• n. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
• n. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into…
• n. Roots, tree roots.
• n. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction,…
• n. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of…
• n. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
• n. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
• n. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon…
• n. Ergotized rye or other grain.
• n. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted…
• n. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot…
• n. (mining) A branch of a vein.
• v. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
• v. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to…
• v. To put spurs on.
• n. (Scotland) A sparrow.
• n. A tern.
• n. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath…
• n. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

spurring

• v. present participle of spur.
• n. An application of the spurs to a horse.

stab

• n. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
• n. A wound made by stabbing.
• n. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
• n. (informal) An attempt.
• n. Criticism.
• n. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
• n. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle…
• v. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
• v. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used…
• v. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

urging

• v. present participle of urge.