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proddingverbpresent participle of prod to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed objectkept prodding the sheep with a staff to move along faster digging, goading, spurring chucking, jabbing, jogging, knocking, nudging, pokingboring, drilling, perforating, piercing, pricking, punching, puncturing, stabbing, stickingdriving, haling, propelling to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of actiona public outcry eventually prodded the politicians into action egging (on), encouraging, exhorting, goading, nudging, pressing, prompting, urging driving, propelling, spurring, stimulatinghurrying, hustling, pushing, rushingadjuring, beseeching, imploring, importuningblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, soft-soaping, wheedlinghigh-pressuring, nagging, needling, pressuringfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring (up) deterring, discouraging, dissuadingbraking, checking, constraining, curbing, holding back, inhibiting, restraining |