0 to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster:
1 to push spurs into the side of a horse to make it go faster:
2 a sharp, wheel-shaped metal object that is attached to the heel of boots worn by people riding horses and is used to encourage the horse to go faster
3 a high piece of land that sticks out from a mountain or a group of mountains
4 something that acts as an encouragement for an activity or development:
5 to encourage an activity or development, or to cause something to develop faster:
In contrast to forms of unpleasantness and adversity that are spurs to useful action, pain must restrict one's capacities in order to justify that equation.
Near its distal extremity it carries one or more tibial spurs.
Mean stem density was significantly greater on the upper spurs than in the lower, less-steep gullies.
The current explosion of constitution-making activity is spurring a re-evaluation of the best practices for constitutional reform.
Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms.
The change spurred fresh debates over crooning and morale.
Hearing a piece of music evoked memories from a person's past, and spurred conversation with others about past experiences.
In the meantime, enormous technological advances spurred a revolution in the sciences concerned with genes, brain, and development.
