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GOADED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does goaded mean?
• GOADED (adjective)
The adjective GOADED has 1 sense:
1. compelled forcibly by an outside agency
Familiarity information: GOADED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compelled forcibly by an outside agency
Synonyms:
driven; goaded
Context example:
mobs goaded by blind hatred
Similar:
involuntary; nonvoluntary; unvoluntary (not subject to the control of the will)
Context examples
Half conscious, but ever with the one thought beating in his mind, he goaded the horse onwards, rushing swiftly down steep ravines over huge boulders, along the edges of black abysses.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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