0 present participle of badger
1 to persuade someone by telling them repeatedly to do something, or to question someone repeatedly:
Stop badgering me - I'll do it when I'm ready.
[ + into + -ing verb ] She's been badgering me into doing some exercise.
[ + to infinitive ] Every time we go into a shop, the kids badger me to buy them sweets.
Both badgering and pressures to confess were applied at the preliminary hearings, and the subsequent trials.
But badgering did not always work, and even confession, when it was offered, required caution, and corroborating evidence.
He accused me of pestering and badgering him for the last three years.
The courts are very anxious that the education authorities should provide facilities and are always badgering them to do so.
We are constantly badgering the chairmen of the nationalised industries to change their policies.
Those people were always badgering me about motorists speeding down their road.
They get people to go badgering, lobbying and asking endless questions.
Therefore, they must not continue the nagging and badgering process which has been going on.
