Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Goaded   /gˈoʊdɪd/   Listen
Goaded

adjective
1.
Compelled forcibly by an outside agency.  Synonym: driven.


Goad

verb
(past & past part. goaded; pres. part. goading)
1.
Give heart or courage to.  Synonym: spur.
2.
Urge with or as if with a goad.
3.
Stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick.  Synonym: prick.
4.
Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism.  Synonym: needle.



Related search:
goading


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Goaded" Quotes from Famous Books



... not at all like a modern newspaper. It was really little more than a weekly pamphlet, a folio of six pages published every Saturday, and containing an essay upon the political situation of the hour. Its hostility to Bute goaded the minister into the production of the Briton, which was afterwards supplemented by the creation of the Auditor when it was found that Smollett had called up against the Ministry a more terrible antagonist than the ...
— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy
... in me to speak so freely of my step-mother's conduct. No questions of his should have drawn from me such an assertion. But I was so young and inexperienced, and I had been goaded almost to madness by her stinging rebukes. It was natural that I should wish to vindicate myself from the charge of rudeness her ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz
... for now that he was not near her, the enormous crime stood out, black and lofty as death itself. It was different when Dalrymple was at her side. His violent vitality dragged hers into action, dragged, drove it, and goaded it, as unwilling soldiers have been driven into battle in barbarous armies. Then the fatality seemed irresistible, then the dangers seemed small, and the burning red shame was pale and weak. Those ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... undetected. I found an accomplished scoundrel and a pattern of human virtue at daggers drawn; they were Damis the Epicurean and Timocles the Stoic. The latter was bathed in perspiration, and his voice showed signs of wear, while Damis goaded him on to ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... madness. Uplifting an ax, and forgetting in my wrath the childish dread which had hitherto stayed my hand, I aimed a blow at the animal, which of course would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded by the interference into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the ax in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot ...
— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com