Synonyms of the word

spurring

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

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.

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.

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.

prodding

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

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.

urging

• v. present participle of urge.