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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 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

An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something

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

rankling with

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

getting a rise out of

pushing someon's buttons

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

putting someone off their stroke

putting someone off their stride

making nervous

setting someone back on their heels

hurting somebody's feelings

rattling one's cage

catching off balance

causing to be at a stand

jarring on

making someone scratch their head

causing someone to lose their composure

putting out of countenance

driving nuts

destabilizing^US

getting someone's wick

agonizing^US

pulling the rug from under

agonising^UK

upsetting the applecart

demoralising^UK

pushing buttons

making a scene

pulling the rug out from under

making someone's hackles rise

getting on someone's nerves

getting someone's hackles up

ruffling someone's feathers

getting under someone's skin

getting in someone's hair

trying someone's patience

getting on someone's tits

getting someone's back up

pushing one's buttons

disappointing

running up the wrong way

making it hot for someone

making things hot for someone

taking the wind out of your sails

making self-conscious

worsting

terrorizing^US

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

terrorising^UK

treading on someone's toes

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

balling up

messing with one's head

making punchy

intoxicating

staggering

setting someone thinking

inebriating

sending into a spin

balking^US

baulking^UK

stopping someone in their tracks

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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

beckoning

leaning on

getting someone going

counseling^US

counselling^UK

mobilizing^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

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

sanctioning

agitating for

agitating against

giving a shot in the arm

giving someone a kick

twisting someone's arm

putting the heat on

putting the screws on

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

fanning the flames of

enquiring^UK

asking authoritatively

bugging

inquiring

favouring^UK

favoring^US

calling upon

acting as a incentive to

giving the incentive to

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

setting alight

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

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

terrorising^UK

putting under an obligation

acting on

coming at

working on

breathing down someone's neck

riding roughshod over

putting through the wringer

lording it over

putting the chill on

putting heat on

holding a gun to one's head

having someone do something

insisting on

putting the heat on

tyrannizing^US

ramrodding

tyrannising^UK

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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

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

slagging off

playing a prank

holding up to ridicule

playing a practical joke on

getting a rise out of

treating disrespectfully

showing up

laughing out of court

playing a trick

playing a joke

casting aspersions on

holding up to shame

pouring scorn on

throwing shade

playing a practical joke

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

leading up the garden path

mucking someone about

having a joke on somebody

making a laughing-stock

making someone a laughing stock

libeling^US

libelling^UK

dishonoring^US

hurting somebody's feelings

clowning

stepping on one's toes

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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

intellectual nourishment

straw that stirs the drink

reassurance

animator

convincing

succor^US

succour^UK

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Noun

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A remark made to taunt or offend

backhanded compliment

offence^UK

offense^US

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Noun

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An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something

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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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