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What is another word for
prodding
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Verb
Present participle for to poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object
Present participle for to stimulate or persuade (someone who is reluctant or slow) to do something
Present participle for to cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something)
Present participle for to question, especially interrogatively
Present participle for to advise earnestly
(
British, informal
)
Present participle for to pressurize (someone) into doing something
Present participle for to continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way
Present participle for to give new life, energy or strength to someone or something
Present participle for to use coaxing or flattery in order to persuade someone to do something
Present participle for to physically feel, especially by prodding or poking
Sticking into
Present participle for to cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful
Present participle for assist, help in wrongdoing
Noun
Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action
The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object
poking
pushing
jabbing
shoving
nudging
digging
elbowing
propelling
stabbing
butting
jogging
punching
spurring
pricking
goading
thrusting
ramming
driving
sticking
bumping
plunging
jolting
knocking
tapping
forcing
hitting
rushing
pressing
jostling
bulldozing
striking
impelling
lungeing
lunging
hustling
bundling
crashing
shouldering
sweeping
sinking
shooting
banging
boring
moving
sending
heaving
manhandling
muscling
jamming
running
gouging
bucking
boosting
touching
hurrying
nosing
nuzzling
charging
buffeting
buffetting
squeezing
bulling
railroading
barging
crowding
whacking
beating
pushing aside
pushing forward
pushing hard
thumping
setting in motion
slamming
smacking
putting in motion
inserting
jarring
drilling
shunting
tilting
parking
plonking
humping
lobbing
hammering
pounding
pitching
advancing
attacking
dabbing
rapping
tipping
drumming
bearing down
walloping
wallopping
belting
bunting
socking
swiping
whamming
pelting
twacking
blowing
popping
headbutting
tupping
actuating
colliding
bashing
smashing
flinging
throwing
driving forwards
powering
getting going
hurling
getting moving
moving forwards
horning
budging
steamrolling
shifting
pressing on
moving forward
launching into
crushing against
resting on
strong-arming
exerting pressure on
bearing down on
more ❯
“She didn't exactly
prod
him in the ribs, but she did pat his arm, and he followed her out to the kitchen.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to stimulate or persuade (someone who is reluctant or slow) to do something
stimulating
prompting
goading
urging
encouraging
inciting
rousing
spurring
moving
provoking
stirring
driving
pushing
instigating
exciting
impelling
motivating
pressing
galvanising
UK
galvanizing
US
triggering
propelling
persuading
sparking
actuating
exhorting
nudging
pricking
piquing
siccing
reminding
chivvying
stirring up
egging on
turning on
putting a bomb under
inspiring
arousing
inducing
spurring on
firing up
activating
animating
inspiriting
influencing
stinging
inflaming
swaying
coercing
rallying
impassioning
compelling
causing
incentivizing
fomenting
forcing
lighting a fire under
pressuring
energizing
US
quickening
leading
making
energising
UK
revving up
exhilarating
whipping up
working up
needling
agitating
electrifying
invigorating
firing
pressurizing
US
inclining
envigorating
enlivening
getting going
kick-starting
awakening
refreshing
pressurising
UK
kindling
wakening
thrilling
whetting
waking
putting up to
coaxing
pepping up
firing the imagination of
tempting
setting going
getting
whipping
jogging
starting
impressing
bringing
vitalizing
touching
emboldening
keying up
driving on
talking into
firing the enthusiasm of
setting off
touching off
inveigling
obliging
constraining
disposing
heartening
hounding
riling
working
challenging
convincing
evoking
vivifying
generating
procuring
innervating
initiating
occasioning
enkindling
bestirring
egging
buoying
steeling
converting
running
titillating
rooting on
raising
mobilizing
US
enthusing
instilling
abetting
acting as a stimulus to
bringing around
pumping up
spiriting up
buoying up
prevailing upon
prevailing on
sparking off
firing with enthusiasm
gingering up
getting someone going
winning over
mobilising
UK
switching on
cranking up
triggering off
putting in motion
geeing up
waking up
setting in motion
calling forth
beseeching
shaking
gaining
satisfying
engendering
badgering
hooking
promoting
rooting
harassing
motiving
grabbing
soliciting
dragooning
bullying
acting as an incentive to
enticing
precipitating
making wild
heating up
elating
leaning on
revitalizing
US
lashing
rousting
creating
jumpstarting
producing
acting upon
beginning
riding herd on
predisposing
conditioning
orienting
imposing on
directing
determining
revitalising
UK
cajoling
eliciting
fanning
agitating for
agitating against
getting to
calling into being
drumming up
setting on
whomping up
drawing forth
bringing into being
bringing out
digging
impacting
uplifting
empowering
advising
leading to
bringing about
giving rise to
bringing on
spooking
reviving
countenancing
necessitating
incentifying
helping
striking
favouring
UK
favoring
US
charging
giving a lift to
giving a boost to
perking up
calling to mind
feeding the fire
making waves
bringing back
stirring embers
adding fuel to fire
intoxicating
commoving
hastening
priming
fueling
US
fuelling
cheering
jolting
giving the incentive to
suggesting to
bracing
acting as a incentive to
filliping
renewing
cueing
gladdening
hinting to
boosting up
cheering on
operating
hustling
putting the screws on
twisting someone's arm
putting the heat on
spiking
disturbing
giving someone a kick
tripping
giving a shot in the arm
livening
exalting
startling
informing
livening up
awaking
juicing up
making alive
giving new life to
cheering up
bucking up
breathing new life into
zipping up
jump-starting
amping up
giving a buzz
giving life to
lighting up
jazzing up
innerving
hurrying
helping out
brushing up
initializing
US
pushing on
urging on
winding up
enabling
cranking
giving someone a cue
initialising
UK
whetting one's appetite
calling up
starting off
taking out of mothballs
making active
starting up
begetting
fostering
resulting in
invoking
boosting
effecting
intensifying
effectuating
spawning
catalyzing
US
breeding
catalysing
UK
strengthening
igniting
yielding
affecting
contriving
contributing to
translating into
advancing
fortifying
increasing
rejuvenating
conceiving
bringing to pass
pioneering
formulating
setting up
realising
UK
realizing
US
hatching
imagining
making happen
bringing forth
thinking up
dreaming up
furthering
reassuring
restoring
brightening
building up
psyching up
contributing
bearing up
making for
launching
chirking up
enhancing
exacerbating
devising
powering
supporting
accelerating
inventing
discovering
introducing
playing a part in
culminating in
achieving
cultivating
developing
discharging
establishing
playing a role in
spicing
building a fire under
bearing
actualizing
conducing
coining
amounting to
concocting
brewing
ending in
originating
being responsible for
bringing off
putting in place
causing to happen
adding up to
conducing to
causing to occur
brightening up
brainstorming
innovating
visualizing
US
projecting
picturing
conjuring up
trumping up
coming up with
ruminating
envisaging
envisioning
visualising
UK
pondering
cooking up
drawing on
speculating
giving incentive
summoning up
inflicting
augmenting
setting in
applauding
wreaking
enforcing
disinhibiting
intriguing
feeding
building
enheartening
comforting
imbuing
infusing
using
sustaining
nurturing
doing
putting into action
revivifying
assuring
reenforcing
nourishing
speeding
enduing
infecting
beghasting
fermenting
exercising
manipulating
fanning the flames of
suscitating
carrying
adding zest to
spicing up
adding a little something to
flipping
pulling
releasing
throwing
dynamizing
consoling
praising
expediting
catapulting
powering up
handling
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
giving impetus
engaging
having a hand in
adding to
accomplishing
being a factor in
stoking up
charging up
bielding
propping up
raising your spirits
raising the morale of
giving a shot in the arm to
stimulating spiritually
giving shot in arm
giving confidence to
boosting morale
giving hope to
lifting the spirits of
stiffening the resolve of
giving one an idea
pushing forward
attaining
opening the door for
organising
UK
engineering
organizing
US
recalling
adding fuel
commanding
having a part in
spelling
entailing
drawing out
being partly responsible for
having the effect of
carrying off
carrying through
oiling the wheels of
forwarding
pulling off
finishing in
making possible
adding fuel to the flames
irritating
speeding up
heightening
steaming up
reminding you of
summoning
putting one in mind of
giving a new lease of life to
acting as a spur to
acting as a fillip to
acting as a impetus to
getting one started
putting new life in
bringing to mind
lighting
zapping
vivificating
letting sunshine in
wakening up
picking up
putting pep into
making more exciting
giving a lift
making more lively
bracing up
making lively
detonating
letting off
pushing the button
designing
forming
evolving
drafting
instituting
imaging
manufacturing
planning
putting up
carrying out
tailoring
making up
obtaining
turning out
carving out
churning out
plotting
putting together
framing
grinding out
laying out
hammering out
drawing up
outlining
working on
thrashing out
modelling
UK
strategizing
throwing up
choreographing
modeling
US
arranging
throwing together
cobbling together
running up
deciding
thinking of
cranking out
inaugurating
founding
improvising
masterminding
patenting
composing
ushering in
parenting
giving birth to
opening up
more ❯
“He had no reserves left. Neither panic nor the imminence of death could
prod
him into running.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something)
reminding
prompting
advising
alerting
cautioning
informing
mentioning
notifying
telling
tipping
warning
alarming
flagging
forewarning
noting
stressing
hinting to
clueing in
tipping off
signaling to
helping someone remember
putting wise
giving a cue to
giving someone a cue
refreshing memory
causing someone to remember
helping you remember
making you remember
jogging your memory
nudging
cueing
assisting
feeding
coaching
helping out
refreshing the memory
indicating to
“You need to constantly
prod
him about doing his share of the household chores.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to question, especially interrogatively
quizzing
grilling
probing
querying
asking
questioning
interrogating
examining
catechizing
interviewing
pumping
cross-examining
investigating
debriefing
sweating
inquiring
roasting
going over
putting through the wringer
enquiring
UK
putting questions to
giving the third degree
cross-questioning
inquiring of
sounding out
working over
canvassing
soliciting
picking one's brains
putting to the question
fraining
asking questions of
making inquiry
asking questions
asking about
sweating it out of
giving the third degree to
seeking answers
hitting up
hitting
petitioning
showing curiosity
raising question
prying
holding out for
searching for answers
looking into
worming something out of someone
putting the screws to
putting through the third degree
putting the screws on
sweating out
putting through the mangle
checking
drilling
pressing
scrutinizing
US
inquisitioning
bombarding
reexamining
reviewing
testing
scrutinising
UK
making inquiries
requesting information
seeking information
double-checking
seeking information of
requesting information of
browbeating
educating
teaching
training
trying
asking pointed questions
trying out
gathering intelligence
giving the third
putting on the hotseat
going over with a fine-tooth comb
needling
finding out
wanting to know
feeling out
seeking an answer
putting a question to
enquiring of
putting out feelers
testing the waters
buzzing
putting the pressure on
popping the question
prying into
putting through the mill
challenging
demanding
questioning closely
cross examining
questioning persistently
worming out of
drawing out
questioning intensely
conversing
talking
consulting
giving oral examination
conversing with
holding a meeting with
getting for the record
conferring with
having a discussion with
having a dialogue with
talking to
holding inquiry
more ❯
“He could tell she was curious to know what he was thinking but too polite to
prod
him about it.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to advise earnestly
exhorting
urging
encouraging
advising
imploring
prompting
entreating
beseeching
pressing
counselling
UK
counseling
US
goading
enjoining
bidding
pushing
adjuring
spurring
stimulating
admonishing
inciting
pressuring
propelling
persuading
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
cautioning
nudging
charging
insisting
pricking
appealing to
calling on
egging on
trying to persuade
leaning on
using pressure on
putting pressure on
calling upon
begging
soliciting
nagging
insisting on
influencing
compelling
asking
requesting
appealing
constraining
pleading
promoting
inducing
pestering
badgering
inspiring
putting up to
pushing for
strongly recommending
hustling
driving
bothering
hounding
harassing
advocating
expediting
inspanning
motivating
recommending
hassling
harrying
impelling
calling
keying up
speeding up
clamouring
UK
campaigning
lobbying
demanding
pouring it on
baying
ordering
exacting
pursuing
requisitioning
suing
petitioning
importuning
clamoring
US
turning on
selling one on
questing
supplicating
applying
stipulating
dragooning
moving
manoeuvring
UK
instigating
maneuvering
US
sanctioning
bugging
inquiring
enquiring
UK
drumming
proposing
wheedling
countenancing
rationalising
UK
conjuring
advancing
commending
tempting
rationalizing
US
asking forcefully
asking authoritatively
making a claim
asking brusquely
prevailing on
psyching up
putting the heat on
twisting someone's arm
putting the screws on
bulldozing into
railroading into
firing up
more ❯
Verb
▲
(
British, informal
)
Present participle for to pressurize (someone) into doing something
bouncing
pressuring
forcing
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
dragooning
railroading
driving
compelling
coercing
goading
harassing
hounding
harrying
nagging
badgering
pestering
urging
spurring
strong-arming
press-ganging
browbeating
bulldozing
bludgeoning
hustling
fast-talking
prevailing on
pressing
intimidating
pushing
influencing
bullying
brainwashing
blackjacking
leaning on
putting pressure on
using pressure on
putting the squeeze on
putting the screws on
constraining
squeezing
obliging
persuading
making
bringing pressure to bear on
turning on the heat
impelling
impressing
obligating
threatening
muscling
sandbagging
working on
acting on
putting under an obligation
twisting someone's arm
breathing down someone's neck
steamrollering
hassling
bothering
compressing
squashing
condensing
constricting
twisting one's arm
politicking
selling
working over
pushing around
insisting
coming at
cowing
domineering
bullyragging
hectoring
bogarting
blustering
terrorizing
US
buffaloing
overbearing
menacing
riding roughshod
despotizing
walking heavy
enforcing
using strong-arm tactics on
terrorising
UK
frightening
mau-mauing
tyrannizing
US
ramrodding
tyrannising
UK
persecuting
putting through the wringer
riding roughshod over
bossing about
lording it over
putting the chill on
bossing around
picking on
putting heat on
holding a gun to one's head
cajoling
assailing
wheedling
importuning
arguing
oppressing
talking
plaguing
besieging
besetting
swaying
having someone do something
tormenting
insisting on
troubling
putting the heat on
vexing
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way
nagging
harassing
pestering
badgering
hassling
hounding
harrying
persecuting
riding
bullying
chivvying
needling
dogging
teasing
hectoring
henpecking
provoking
heckling
baiting
importuning
goading
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
nudging
scolding
berating
upbraiding
egging
urging
keeping on at
picking on
keeping after
giving a hard time
going on at
pecking at
picking at
working on
harping on at
finding fault
finding fault with
breathing down someone's neck
grumbling at
moaning at
carping at
bending someone's ear
keeping complaining to
moaning on at
taking it out on
busting chops
busting someone's balls
gnawing at
bothering
tormenting
annoying
troubling
bugging
bedevilling
UK
bedeviling
US
deviling
devilling
pursuing
chivying
browbeating
ragging
curdling
scratching around
ragging on
yapping at
searching high heaven
plaguing
worrying
vexing
irritating
disturbing
irking
besetting
aggravating
beleaguering
mithering
afflicting
molesting
torturing
driving up the wall
oppressing
agitating
upsetting
besieging
galling
victimizing
US
nettling
giving someone grief
distressing
fretting
exasperating
victimising
UK
narking
racking
intimidating
cursing
ruffling
peeving
agonizing
US
anguishing
chafing
harrowing
getting on your nerves
terrorizing
US
eating
perturbing
stressing
paining
getting in your hair
trying
getting at
terrorising
UK
taunting
agonising
UK
riling
piquing
haunting
getting to
getting
displeasing
gnawing
grating
angering
dunning
perplexing
disquieting
hacking off
putting out
burning up
driving round the bend
abusing
mistreating
maltreating
making things hot for someone
ill-treating
hurting
excruciating
rasping
spiting
frosting
griping
itching
injuring
hazing
discriminating against
attacking
leaning on
offending
tyrannizing
US
miffing
outraging
tantalizing
US
disgusting
embarrassing
tyrannising
UK
tantalising
UK
fussing
discomposing
winding up
assailing
driving bananas
giving a bad time
rubbing up the wrong way
pressing
ticking off
niggling
ribbing
pressurizing
US
reminding
chaffing
punishing
hunting
infuriating
grieving
domineering
incensing
maddening
pushing around
ridiculing
interrupting
enraging
discommoding
martyring
pressurising
UK
rankling
gibing
plying
barraging
straining
punishing unfairly
inflaming
appalling
discomfiting
having it in for
beating
graveling
gravelling
pushing
aggrieving
depressing
driving round the twist
flustering
disconcerting
rattling
having a down on
fazing
frustrating
hacking you off
giving the business
lying heavy on
intruding upon
grating on
chagrining
getting on your wick
dissatisfying
preying on
weighing on
making somebody's hackles rise
biting
weighing heavily on
eating at
causing suffering to
nagging at
making it hot for someone
bumming out
getting across
giving someone the hump
making someone see red
getting your back up
rankling with
getting under your skin
blighting
keeping at
petitioning
soliciting
bedogging
harping on
prompting
carping
guying
giving someone hell
grizzling
mocking
burdening
chiding
egging on
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
grinding
insisting
razzing
inflicting pain on
inflicting suffering on
belabouring
UK
insisting on
wronging
crucifying
exiling
expelling
dragooning
getting your hackles up
getting your dander up
making your blood boil
ruffling one's feathers
trying your patience
getting up someone's nose
taking the mickey
driving crazy
disrupting
jeering
immolating
demonizing
US
using
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
getting on the nerves of
taking the piss out of
putting pressure on
barracking
booing
bringing pressure to bear on
getting on one's nerves
demonising
UK
disparaging
messing with
driving you up the wall
singling out
getting in the hair of
burning
shouting down
bullyragging
noodging
reviling
reproaching
sticking the knife into
getting the knife into
stacking the deck
having your knife into
showing antagonism to
disapproving of
hissing
belaboring
US
bombarding
gripping
overriding
dissing
exploiting
feeling ill will towards
showing ill will towards
pushing about
bearing a grudge towards
stressing out
saddening
dominating
enslaving
affecting
jerking around
jibing at
shouting at
rattling one's cage
dismaying
cheating
overwhelming
wounding
abrading
entangling
hampering
shouting catcalls at
butting in
making game of
bleeding
aggressing
unnerving
weighing down
fleecing
unsettling
flurrying
distracting
concerning
distempering
discombobulating
alarming
unhinging
discountenancing
frazzling
alaruming
ailing
derailing
discomforting
swindling
putting the squeeze on
mixing up
putting your back up
turning off
hagriding
throwing
confounding
jumping on one's case
tyrannizing over
shaking
strapping
desolating
pricking
breaking
exercising
undoing
indisposing
nit-picking
falling upon
falling on
starting in on
giving the needle
causing anguish to
weirding out
making miserable
freaking out
doing a number on
throwing off balance
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
making wretched
making it tough for
cutting up
hoodwinking
tricking
blackmailing
conning
taking advantage of
inconveniencing
insulting
scaring
boring
impeding
crossing
hindering
imposing on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to give new life, energy or strength to someone or something
reinvigorating
reviving
revitalising
UK
revitalizing
US
restoring
rejuvenating
renewing
revivifying
reanimating
resuscitating
stimulating
enlivening
recreating
freshening
bracing
repairing
renovating
inspiriting
exhilarating
vivifying
modernising
UK
modernizing
US
updating
cheering
quickening
replenishing
regaining
prompting
cooling
jogging
breathing new life into
bringing around
brushing up
refreshing
regenerating
recharging
rekindling
invigorating
rewaking
rewakening
energizing
US
reconditioning
refreshening
reactivating
enkindling
reawakening
arousing
rallying
strengthening
awakening
recovering
rousing
encouraging
relieving
envigorating
brightening
energising
UK
kick-starting
giving a boost to
making whole
bouncing back
touching up
waking up
giving new life to
uplifting
fortifying
bolstering
helping
resurrecting
reinventing
pepping up
bucking up
building up
giving new strength to
putting new life into
bringing back to life
getting going again
giving a shot in the arm to
propping up
putting some spark into
giving a new lease on life
animating
boosting
galvanizing
US
stirring
galvanising
UK
inspiring
stirring up
raising from the dead
restoring to life
livening up
waking
perking up
buoying
exciting
activating
bringing back
inciting
reenergizing
re-establishing
emboldening
motivating
gingering up
heartening
vitalizing
buoying up
spurring
steeling
instigating
recalling
wakening
gladdening
awaking
bearing up
chirking up
cheering up
restarting
bringing to life
coming to life
giving a new lease of life to
breathing life into
pushing
jazzing up
reassuring
healing
comforting
triggering
curing
kindling
assuring
filliping
consoling
piquing
goading
enheartening
jumpstarting
improving
moving
relaunching
firing up
revisiting
reinstituting
reliving
rescuing
recapturing
rehabilitating
reinforcing
recycling
geeing up
enhancing
rediscovering
raising your spirits
elating
blowing away the cobwebs
giving shot in arm
psyching up
prettifying
embellishing
enriching
unkilling
rising up
gracing
beautifying
zhooshing
experiencing again
making better
dressing up
adding some colour to
summoning up
making more attractive
zhooshing up
rebooting
recrudescing
reigniting
relighting
reestablishing
cleaning
unwinding
redeveloping
reproducing
lifting
changing
freshening up
elevating
leading
electrifying
giving the kiss of life to
bringing to
conjuring up
saving
making healthy
calling up
reexperiencing
topping up
cooling down
empowering
incentifying
driving
recollecting
applauding
remembering
impassioning
swaying
sparking
enforcing
disinhibiting
whetting
reintroducing
replaying
refinding
reincarnating
reinstalling
building
spurring on
egging
whipping up
incentivizing
firing
fanning
spiking
titillating
tempting
boosting up
pumping up
igniting
revving up
provoking
reenforcing
cheering on
raising
recovering consciousness
coming to
getting going
coming alive
regaining consciousness
coming round
coming to one's senses
coming around
going over
returning to
living through again
finding again
bringing to mind
going back to
discovering again
going through again
summoning back
digging up
promoting
urging
zipping up
increasing
dispatching
precipitating
actuating
livening
vivificating
springing
growing
innerving
impelling
innervating
nudging
juicing up
jump-starting
amping up
shaking up
praising
pricking
lighting a fire under
bielding
spiriting up
giving confidence to
boosting morale
raising the morale of
giving hope to
stimulating spiritually
lifting the spirits of
stiffening the resolve of
boosting moral
making alive
raising spirits
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to use coaxing or flattery in order to persuade someone to do something
wheedling
coaxing
cajoling
charming
enticing
flattering
inveigling
persuading
talking
blarneying
courting
drawing
worming
beguiling
inducing
luring
soft-soaping
sweet-talking
tempting
convincing
getting
influencing
making
swaying
arguing
blandishing
coercing
palavering
reasoning
urging
smooth-talking
bringing round
conning
finagling
getting round
kowtowing
oiling
prevailing on
seducing
snowing
soaping
winning over
buttering up
softening up
sweetening up
talking into
working on
laying it on
spreading it on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to physically feel, especially by prodding or poking
probing
poking
feeling
feeling around
tapping
patting
brushing
stroking
grazing
handling
rubbing
nudging
pressing lightly
thumbing
brushing against
palpating
frisking
osculating
brushing up against
rubbing up against
dabbing
fingering
pawing
palming
touching
impinging upon
laying a hand on
laying a finger on
tickling
fiddling with
playing about with
manipulating
toying with
coming into contact
Verb
▲
Sticking into
sticking into
jabbing
stabbing
digging into
pushing into
sinking into
piercing
probing
impaling
perforating
puncturing
pricking
spearing
boring
spiking
goring
reaming
lancing
sticking
drilling
transfixing
knifing
breaching
bayonetting
entering
bayoneting
thrusting
boring through
driving through
penetrating
making a hole in
going through
inserting into
breaking in
passing through
popping in
eating through
drilling through
making a hole
breaking through
running into
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful
getting to
annoying
irritating
bothering
irking
vexing
exasperating
bugging
provoking
disturbing
angering
aggravating
ruffling
galling
riling
peeving
nettling
piquing
narking
miffing
infuriating
hassling
getting
harassing
riding
chafing
grating
persecuting
pestering
rasping
spiting
eating
goading
frosting
griping
exacerbating
humping
itching
distracting
baiting
niggling
stinging
taunting
pricking
affecting
hacking off
putting out
winding up
rubbing up the wrong way
burning up
getting across
getting at
Verb
▲
Present participle for assist, help in wrongdoing
abetting
aiding
helping
assisting
backing
supporting
sanctioning
boosting
furthering
seconding
endorsing
succoring
US
succouring
UK
backstopping
championing
condoning
expediting
favoring
US
favouring
UK
forwarding
prompting
sustaining
upholding
urging
collaborating with
colluding with
conniving with
cooperating with
fostering
lending a hand
pushing
siding with
spurring
working with
advocating
conniving
countenancing
goading
going along with
propping up
conniving at
participating in
backing up
egging on
giving a push to
putting up to
Noun
▲
Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action
provocation
incitement
incentive
stimulus
impetus
motivation
encouragement
spur
instigation
impulse
goad
stimulant
inducement
boost
incitation
momentum
stimulation
yeast
inspiration
urging
goading
pressure
cause
prompting
stirring
excitement
reason
rousing
challenge
dare
taunt
baiting
egging on
red rag
casus belli
push
persuasion
coaxing
beseeching
catalyst
urge
impulsion
spurring
pressing
will
prod
shot in the arm
reminder
prompt
nudge
pressurization
US
pushing
bait
exhortation
lure
motive
carrot
pressurisation
UK
needling
arm-twisting
kick up the backside
fillip
influence
drive
driving force
lift
kick
turn-on
enticement
trigger
attraction
thrust
sweetener
invitation
propellant
spark
tonic
temptation
douceur
motivator
clarion call
pick-me-up
come-on
motivating force
force
help
aid
propulsion
draw
pull
excitant
flash
charge
piquing
sting
allurement
facilitator
consideration
actuation
spark plug
kindling
fuelling
UK
rationale
fomentation
stimulator
leaven
jump-start
ground
purpose
agitation
abetment
kick-start
stirring up
fueling
US
whipping up
reason why
jog
prick
activation
needle
compulsion
start
movement
shove
impellent
motive power
grounds
goal
uplift
food
intellectual nourishment
snare
initiation
bidding
instigator
decoy
trap
reviver
spice
behest
inception
devising
ammunition
promoter
persuader
seducement
insistence
excuse
premium
determinant
kick in the pants
fodder
arousing
inveiglement
encourager
spring
carrot and stick
enkindling
spurring on
blandishment
kickoff
reactivation
offer
example
model
stoking up
muse
siren song
agitator
fuel
oxygen
revelation
adjuvant
incendiary
agent
springboard
inspo
bang
precipitant
fireworks
creativeness
awakening
beacon
arousal
eureka
reassurance
radical stimulus
cue
eye-opener
geeing-up
wave maker
straw that stirs the drink
guiding light
succor
US
succour
UK
beacon of hope
shining light
animator
hand
support
assistance
convincing
inducing
persuading
backing
secours
comfort
relief
conversion
mover
powerhouse
assist
buzz
occasion
suasion
leg up
bribe
hook
con
gee-up
helping hand
reward
signal
nod
perk
leader
desire
brainwash
twist
impelling cause
hard sell
sweet talk
snow job
soft soap
green light
go-ahead
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something
prompting
pushing
reminding
suggestion
assistance
encouragement
hint
persuasion
reminder
influence
pressing
urging
cue
cues
hints
jogging
pressure
reminders
advice
geeing-up
incitement
inducement
instigation
motivation
suggestions
warning
clarion call
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