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[ verb ] urge on; cause to act

Synonyms

prod incite

Examples

"They other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window"

Used in print

(Los Angeles Times...)

The crisis was artificially stirred_up by the Kremlin ( Wall_Street ) and the Red_Army ( Pentagon ) egged_on by the West Germans ( East_Germans ) .

Related terms

goad halloo goad incitement

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