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[ verb ] urge on; cause to act
Examples "They other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)There are hordes of nubile young_women there who , prodded by their impatient mothers , are determined to marry . (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)She was going to keep_on scheming , poking , prodding , suggesting , and dictating until the cops got_up enough interest in him to go back to their old neighborhood and ask questions . Related terms |
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[ verb ] to push against gently
Examples "She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)Mantle , it 's apparent , resented Casey_Stengel 's attempts to push and prod him into the perfection the veteran manager saw as a thrilling possibility . |
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