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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

Present participle for to suffocate a person's space as if to coerce them to do something

Present participle for to defy or challenge (someone to do something)

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

Noun

Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action

A remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone

The use of persuasion or intimidation to make someone do something

Adjective

Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately

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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 under your skin

getting up your nose

getting your goat

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting your dander 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

giving someone a hard time

getting on someone's nerves

bending someone's ear

criticizing^US

tantalizing^US

making someone's blood boil

getting one's goat

making someone's hackles rise

grating on

tantalising^UK

rattling someone's cage

harping on at

breathing down someone's neck

ruffling someone's feathers

rubbing you up the wrong way

getting under someone's skin

criticising^UK

putting someone's back up

getting in someone's hair

working up

getting on one's nerves

getting under skin

putting someone's nose out of joint

getting on someone's wick

getting someone's dander up

getting someone's back up

eating away at

making anxious

getting up someone's nose

putting your nose out of joint

messing with

messing

pushing someon's buttons

getting a rise out of

awaking

absorbing

getting your hackles up

raising your hackles

driving bananas

winding somebody up

driving you up the wall

getting on somebody's nerves

running up the wrong way

getting someone's goat

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

wearing on

getting across someone

searching high heaven

getting in the hair of

razzing

getting on the nerves of

taking the mickey out of

taking the piss out of

trying the patience of

victimizing^US

tyrannizing^US

discriminating against

victimising^UK

tyrannising^UK

keeping complaining to

putting someone off their stroke

trying someone's patience

getting under one's skin

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

put somebody's nose out of joint

setting someone back on their heels

getting someone's hackles up

hurting somebody's feelings

destabilising^UK

rattling one's cage

putting someone off their stride

causing to be at a stand

making someone scratch their head

demoralising^UK

causing someone to lose their composure

putting out of countenance

driving nuts

discouraging

getting someone's wick

agonizing^US

pulling the rug from under

wearing

flipping

getting in one's hair

putting the wind up

jarring on

agonising^UK

going to one's head

trying one's patience

amazing

scaring the bejesus out of

pulling the rug out from under

haunting

aching

shaming

getting on someone's tits

ruffling one's feathers

pushing one's buttons

rubbing one the wrong way

catching somebody unawares

catching somebody off balance

jarring upon

setting your teeth on edge

throwing into confusion

throwing into uproar

throwing into disorder

balking^US

making it hot for someone

sticking the knife into

expelling

making things hot for someone

getting the knife into

upsetting the apple cart

messing with one's head

making punchy

intoxicating

staggering

setting someone thinking

inebriating

putting someone off

baulking^UK

stopping someone in their tracks

putting the wind up someone

making jump

scaring the living daylights out of

making self-conscious

scaring to death

putting off his or her stride

making someone's hair stand on end

taking the wind out of someone's sails

worsting

scaring silly

scaring stiff

giving someone a turn

hurting someone's feelings

treading on someone's toes

twisting someone's arm

using strong-arm tactics on

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

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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

getting someone going

mobilizing^US

favouring^UK

favoring^US

fueling^US

stiffening the resolve of

acting as a stimulus to

mobilising^UK

acting as an incentive to

lifting the morale of

giving a shot in the arm

giving someone a kick

frightening

zapping

being responsible for

fanning the flames of

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

acting as a incentive to

giving the incentive to

succouring^UK

succoring^US

boosting someone's morale

raising the morale of

giving a shot in the arm to

stimulating spiritually

giving shot in arm

giving confidence to

giving hope to

lifting the spirits of

catalyzing^US

catalysing^UK

realizing^US

starting the ball rolling

realising^UK

organizing^US

getting things rolling

organising^UK

having as a consequence

equaling^US

equalling^UK

raising someone's spirits

getting something going

adding fuel to the flames

breathing new life into

biasing^US

biassing^UK

playing a part in

getting working

getting off the ground

building a fire under

laying the foundations of

laying the first stone of

getting the ball rolling

setting the ball rolling

being partly responsible for

leaving the door open to

putting on cloud nine

putting on top of the world

giving a lift to

letting the sun shine in

counseling^US

counselling^UK

twisting someone's arm

colouring^UK

bringing pressure to bear on

carrying weight with

cutting any ice with

making yourself felt with

bringing pressure to bear upon

coloring^US

lifting

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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

counseling^US

counselling^UK

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

enquiring^UK

asking authoritatively

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

twisting someone's arm

putting the screws on

bulldozing into

railroading into

firing up

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“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

tantalising^UK

tantalizing^US

taking the mickey out of

pulling someone's leg

leading on

flirting with

poking borak at

pulling somebody's leg

swipeing at

leading somebody on

taking the piss out of

making a monkey out of

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

treating with contempt

pooh-poohing

hooting

making a fool of

treating contemptuously

holding up to ridicule

pulling someone's chain

playing a practical joke

making a laughing-stock

giving someone a hard time

playing a practical joke on

getting a rise out of

leading up the garden path

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

telling somebody stories

mucking someone about

shouting disapproval at

blowing raspberries at

messing someone around

shucking someone

making a monkey out of someone

putting someone on

messing someone about

making someone a laughing stock

laughing out of court

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Verb

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Present participle for to suffocate a person's space as if to coerce them to do something

putting the screws on

using strong-arm tactics on

putting the squeeze on

twisting someone's arm

bringing pressure to bear on

tyrannizing^US

terrorizing^US

tyrannising^UK

terrorising^UK

putting under an obligation

breathing down someone's neck

putting through the wringer

riding roughshod over

twisting somebody's arm

buffaloing

ramrodding

having someone do something

putting the screws to

selling on

exerting influence on

victimizing^US

victimising^UK

tightening the screws on

brutalising^UK

brutalizing^US

putting the frighteners on

scaring the bejesus out of

ruling with an iron hand

ruling with a rod of iron

turning the screws on

vandalizing^US

pushing someone around

vandalising^UK

forcing somebody's hand

prevailing upon

effecting

tightening the screw on

putting someone off their stroke

putting the arm on

manhandling

making an offer they can't refuse

playing the heavy with

making it hot for someone

putting the fear of God into

scaring to death

frightening out of your wits

making things hot for someone

imperilling^UK

imperiling^US

bringing pressure to bear upon

bringing force to bear on

making threats against

having someone under your thumb

treating brutally

bringing someone to their knees

holding a gun to one's head

pulling the rug from under

pulling the rug out from under

throwing weight around

keeping under thumb

bending to one's will

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Verb

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Present participle for to defy or challenge (someone to do something)

throwing down the gauntlet

throwing down the gauntlet to

trying

Verb

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

channeling^US

channelling^UK

corralling

droving

funnelling^UK

funneling^US

Noun

Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action

fuelling^UK

fueling^US

stimulating substance

the why and wherefore

straw that stirs the drink

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Noun

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A remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone

backhanded compliment

offense^US

offence^UK

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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

fulfilment^UK

putting into practice

fulfillment^US

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Adjective

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Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately

energizing^US

energising^UK

galvanizing^US

galvanising^UK

giving one food for thought

like a red rag to a bull

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