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spursnounpl. of spur something that arouses action or activitythe threat of losing its only sports franchise was the spur the city council needed to finally do something about the rising crime rate boosts, encouragements, goads, impetuses, impulses, incentives, incitations, incitements, instigations, momenta(or momentums), motivations, provocations, stimulants, stimuli, yeasts inducements, invitationsantecedents, causes, considerations, grounds, motives, occasions, reasonscatalysts, catalyzers, fuels, sparks shots in the arm counterincentives(or counter-incentives), disincentives a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something elsea weak wall that might need a spur braces, buttresses, mountings, mounts, props, reinforcements, shores, stays, supports, underpinnings shoringscolumns, pedestals, pilasters, pillarsarches, bolsters, brackets, cantilevers, girdersbearingscrutches, pegs, posts, stakes, stanchions, stands, stilts, struts, trussesbases, foundations, frames spursverbpresent tense third-person singular of spurto urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed objectgently spurred the horse with his heels digs, goads, prods chucks, jabs, jogs, knocks, nudges, pokesbores, drills, perforates, pierces, pricks, punches, punctures, stabs, sticksdrives, hales, propels |