What is another word for egging on?

“The nurse should be careful not to be too optimistic about his seeming spurt of energy, and should not egg him on into an ever-increasing cycle of activities.”

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To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting someone's dander up

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

putting someone's nose out of joint

steaming up

getting a rise out of

getting your dander up

rattling someone's cage

getting your goat

ruffling one's feathers

getting up someone's nose

making somebody's hackles rise

rubbing the wrong way

getting on one's nerves

agonizing^US

victimizing^US

agonising^UK

victimising^UK

tyrannizing^US

bending someone's ear

tyrannising^UK

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

getting someone's wick

brutalizing^US

making it hot for someone

brutalising^UK

putting the squeeze on

messing over

dumping on

riding roughshod over

keeping complaining to

kicking around

rankling with

taking the piss out of

making things hot for someone

making someone's hackles rise

getting on someone's nerves

getting someone's hackles up

ruffling someone's feathers

getting under someone's skin

getting in someone's hair

trying someone's patience

getting on someone's tits

getting someone's back up

discomfiting

getting your hackles up

giving someone hell

messing

pushing someon's buttons

getting in the hair of

getting on the nerves of

driving you up the wall

searching high heaven

causing discomfort to

sticking the knife into

expelling

dragooning

getting the knife into

getting across someone

playing the heavy with

jumping on one's case

discriminating against

dishonoring^US

doing an injustice to

giving no quarter

stepping on the toes of

crushing

pressurizing^US

putting pressure on

bringing pressure to bear on

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

ruling with a rod of iron

bringing under the yoke

ruling with an iron hand

bringing someone to their knees

satirizing^US

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

busting someone's balls

pulling someone's leg

satirising^UK

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(rise to) Present participle for to react with annoyance or anger

Verb

Present participle for to disturb mentally or emotionally

hurting somebody's feelings

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

putting someone off their stroke

setting someone back on their heels

putting out of countenance

putting someone off their stride

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

making someone scratch their head

throwing into a tizzy

paralysing^UK

tantalising^UK

tantalizing^US

paralyzing^US

stopping someone in their tracks

causing anguish to

pulling the rug from under

pulling the rug out from under

causing someone to lose their composure

fouling up

causing to be at a stand

making self-conscious

letting down

making wretched

causing concern to

causing discomfort to

taking the wind out of your sails

galvanizing^US

galvanising^UK

getting on one's nerves

breaking the heart of

filling with consternation

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

balking^US

making someone fed up

baulking^UK

sending over the edge

flapping

grating on

trying the patience of

making discontented

getting on your nerves

throwing into disarray

making a big thing of

making a big thing out of

making a mountain out of a molehill

making a meal of

upsetting the applecart

raising someone's eyebrows

completely surprising

shaking out of your complacency

hitting like ton of bricks

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Verb

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Present participle for to urge or advise (someone) to do something

counselling^UK

counseling^US

advising

appealing to

trying to persuade

strongly recommending

putting the screws on

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

putting the screws to

pushing around

press-ganging

exerting influence on

using strong-arm tactics on

enquiring^UK

asking authoritatively

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

twisting someone's arm

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Verb

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Present participle for assist, help in wrongdoing

Verb

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Present participle for to promote or nurture the development of

Verb

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Present participle for to make worse or more severe

Noun

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The action of provoking unlawful behaviour or urging someone to behave unlawfully

fueling^US

fuelling^UK

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Noun

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An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something

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