0 past simple and past participle of goad
1 to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them:
2 to touch an animal with the end of a pointed object in order to make it angry or encourage it to do something:
The rising, it is argued, was not reactive : the rebels in these counties were not, in general, goaded into action by government or loyalist repression.
The conditions are so bad with us that the men have simply been goaded into that extreme action.
Our police in this country are a decent set of gentlemen when they are not goaded on to behave otherwise.
To my mind it is an abnormal manifestation of men goaded into a frenzy, the frenzy of despair.
I do not disagree with him, but they have been goaded into it.
It is not surprising then that the employees feel they are being goaded to higher production without any increase in wages.
Further, what real progress can be hoped for when tired bodies and jaded minds are goaded into those intellectual pursuits which demand freshness and alertness.
He should not allow himself to be goaded so easily.
