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Verb

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

To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

Present participle for to incite or provoke into doing something

Present participle for to prod with a goad

Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

(British, informal) Present participle for to pressurize (someone) into doing something

Present participle for to hasten the speed or progress of

Present participle for to direct or steer a group of animals or people

Noun

Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action

A remark made to taunt or offend

The use of persuasion or intimidation to make someone do something

Adjective

Causing anger, offense, or a strong negative reaction

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Verb

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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

rubbing the wrong way

getting on one's nerves

getting your dander up

keeping on at

putting someone's nose out of joint

bending someone's ear

making somebody's hackles rise

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

rattling someone's cage

ruffling one's feathers

harping on at

breathing down someone's neck

rubbing you up the wrong way

getting up someone's nose

pushing someon's buttons

getting a rise out of

affecting

exciting

souring

driving you up the wall

getting your hackles up

searching high heaven

getting across someone

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

victimizing^US

unsettling

making someone fed up

trying the patience of

making discontented

losing patience

taking the piss out of

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

busting someone's balls

keeping complaining to

tyrannizing^US

victimising^UK

tyrannising^UK

discriminating against

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

brutalizing^US

brutalising^UK

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

inflicting anguish on

messing up

making things hot for someone

showing antagonism to

disapproving of

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

bearing a grudge towards

punishing repeatedly and unfairly

labouring^UK

laboring^US

upsetting the applecart

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

bringing pressure to bear on

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

having your knife into

playing the heavy with

riding roughshod over

targetting

targeting

aggressing

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

dishonoring^US

doing an injustice to

giving no quarter

stepping on the toes of

putting someone off their stroke

causing someone to lose their composure

making it hot for someone

hunting

exiling

sticking the knife into

expelling

dragooning

getting the knife into

giving someone the works

inflicting pain on

working over

inflicting suffering on

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“She began to goad him with taunts, insults, and cruel suggestions.”

Verb

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To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

galvanizing^US

energising^UK

energizing^US

galvanising^UK

lighting a fire under

firing the imagination of

firing the enthusiasm of

firing with enthusiasm

revitalising^UK

livening up

driving on

throwing down the gauntlet

leaning on

getting someone going

counseling^US

counselling^UK

mobilizing^US

favouring^UK

favoring^US

stiffening the resolve of

fueling^US

calling someone's bluff

acting as a stimulus to

mobilising^UK

issuing a challenge to

acting as an incentive to

strongly recommending

being responsible for

lifting the morale of

whetting one's appetite

agitating for

agitating against

giving a shot in the arm

giving someone a kick

kick-starting

requiring

initiating

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

twisting someone's arm

putting the heat on

rationalising^UK

putting the screws on

fanning the flames of

clamouring^UK

acting as a incentive to

giving the incentive to

clamoring^US

enquiring^UK

asking authoritatively

succouring^UK

succoring^US

bielding

raising your spirits

raising the morale of

giving a shot in the arm to

stimulating spiritually

lifting the spirits of

catalyzing^US

catalysing^UK

giving someone a shout

raising from the dead

calling to mind

getting up

giving a lift to

bringing back to life

bringing back

conducing

breathing new life into

giving birth to

giving someone a charge

having as a consequence

building a fire under

transporting

adding fuel to the flames

putting one in mind of

initialising^UK

taking out of mothballs

magnetizing^US

taking your breath away

magnetising^UK

realising^UK

organising^UK

realizing^US

organizing^US

taking a turn for the better

being partly responsible for

leaving the door open to

getting a rise out of

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“The task of the facilitator was to goad the students by posing pertinent questions and to answer questions on their part.”

Verb

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Present participle for to incite or provoke into doing something

“Of course, she probably only called me to try and goad me into reading her comment and replying.”

Verb

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Present participle for to prod with a goad

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“As the herders goad the cattle, the clouds goad the men.”

Verb

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Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

satirising^UK

satirizing^US

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

pulling someone's leg

taking the piss out of

making a monkey out of

treating with contempt

treating contemptuously

pulling someone's chain

playing tricks

holding up to ridicule

playing a practical joke on

shouting at

holding up to shame

getting a rise out of

playing a practical joke

thumbing nose at

laughing out of court

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

leading up the garden path

mucking someone about

shouting disapproval at

blowing raspberries at

shouting catcalls at

having a joke on somebody

poking fun

making a crack

giving the Bronx cheer to

running down

making a laughing-stock

making someone a laughing stock

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Verb

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(British, informal) Present participle for to pressurize (someone) into doing something

putting the screws on

putting the squeeze on

bringing pressure to bear on

twisting someone's arm

turning on the heat

using strong-arm tactics on

terrorizing^US

putting under an obligation

terrorising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

putting through the wringer

riding roughshod over

holding a gun to one's head

having someone do something

tyrannizing^US

tyrannising^UK

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Verb

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Present participle for to hasten the speed or progress of

Verb

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Present participle for to direct or steer a group of animals or people

channeling^US

channelling^UK

funnelling^UK

funneling^US

Noun

Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action

fuelling^UK

fueling^US

straw that stirs the drink

rebirth

emergence

renewal

realization^US

realisation^UK

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Noun

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A remark made to taunt or offend

backhanded compliment

offense^US

offence^UK

left-handed compliment

character assassination

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Noun

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The use of persuasion or intimidation to make someone do something

demanding money with menaces

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

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Adjective

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Causing anger, offense, or a strong negative reaction

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

bedeviling^US

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