Synonyms of the word

prod

• v. To poke, to push, to touch.
• v. To encourage, to prompt.
• n. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
• n. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
• n. A poke.
• n. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
• n. (computing, programming) production.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

encouragement

• n. The act of encouraging.
• n. Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive.
• n. Words or actions that increase someone's confidence.
• n. The feeling of being encouraged.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

goad

• n. A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
• v. To prod with a goad.
• v. To encourage or stimulate.
• v. To incite or provoke.

goading

• v. present participle of goad.
• n. The act by which somebody is goaded.

incite

• v. To rouse, stir up or excite.

jab

• n. A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
• n. (boxing) A short straight punch.
• n. (Britain) A medical injection.
• n. (Britain) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
• n. (US, figuratively) A verbal annoyance.
• v. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
• v. To deliver a quick punch.
• v. (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection.

nudge

• n. A gentle push.
• n. (Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking…
• n. (fruit machines) The rotation by one step of a reel of the player's choice.
• v. (transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
• v. (transitive) To near or come close to something.

poke

• v. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
• v. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
• v. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
• v. To put a poke on.
• v. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
• v. (informal, Internet) To notify.
• v. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
• n. A prod, jab, or punch.
• n. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
• n. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
• n. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with…
• n. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program…
• n. (now regional) A sack or bag.
• n. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
• n. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
• n. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
• n. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs,…

prodding

• v. present participle of prod.
• n. The act of giving a prod.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

spur

• n. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse…
• n. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
• n. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
• n. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into…
• n. Roots, tree roots.
• n. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction,…
• n. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of…
• n. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
• n. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
• n. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon…
• n. Ergotized rye or other grain.
• n. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted…
• n. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot…
• n. (mining) A branch of a vein.
• v. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
• v. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to…
• v. To put spurs on.
• n. (Scotland) A sparrow.
• n. A tern.
• n. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath…
• n. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

spurring

• v. present participle of spur.
• n. An application of the spurs to a horse.

stab

• n. An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
• n. A wound made by stabbing.
• n. Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
• n. (informal) An attempt.
• n. Criticism.
• n. (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
• n. A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle…
• v. (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
• v. (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used…
• v. (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

thrust

• n. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
• n. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.).
• n. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
• n. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
• v. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
• v. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
• v. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
• v. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
• v. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

urging

• v. present participle of urge.