goad

to goad someone to do something

They goaded him on to break the window.

she was goaded beyond control.

for him the visit was a goad to renewed effort.

The boxers were goaded on by the shrieking crowd.

he goaded her on to more daring revelations.

They goaded him into entering the pitch dark basement by saying he was a coward.

The play is bound to fail; the plot excites little interest or curiosity. Tostimulate is to excite to activity or to renewed vigor of action as if by spurring or goading:

" YOU-KNOW-WHO, then! " Harry shouted, goaded past endurance.

Are you trying to goad me, Lachlan?

The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.

I goaded you guys into a fight to prove a point.

You can goad me all you like, Lynette. I did not come here to fight.

And maybe it goads you on to do better. But it is very painful I know.

But all these things went down before the merciless coldness of her mind and the goad of desperation.

Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me!

And she knew she was being goaded into this anger deliberately.

They did a goad job but they hurt him too much.