No matter how much I prod her, she refuses to start working on the assignment.
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Prod
//pɹɑd//
Synonyms for "prod" (153 found)
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11 entriesSynonyms
5 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
7 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
70 translations across 21 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σκουντάω verb (to poke)
Bulgarian
4 entries- остен noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- бодвам verb (to poke)
- муша verb (to poke)
- мушкам verb (to prick with a goad)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 促使 verb (to encourage)
- 刺 verb (to poke)
- 戳 verb (to poke)
- 捅 verb (to poke)
Dutch
3 entries- aanmoedigen verb (to encourage)
- duwen verb (to poke)
- porren verb (to poke)
Esperanto
1 entries- palpi verb (to poke)
Finnish
2 entries- piiska noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- sähköpiiska noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
French
3 entries- encourager verb (to encourage)
- pousser verb (to poke)
- tâter verb (to poke)
German
4 entries- Stachelstock noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- Treibestock noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- anspornen verb (to encourage)
- anstacheln verb (to prick with a goad)
Greek
1 entries- σκουντώ verb (to poke)
Italian
4 entries- picca noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- incoraggiare verb (to encourage)
- pungolare verb (to poke)
- spronare verb (to poke)
Japanese
2 entries- 突き刺す verb (to poke)
- 突く verb (to poke)
Latin
1 entries- pungo verb (to poke)
Norwegian
1 entries- stikke verb (to poke)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- اوكندره noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- كوندر noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- دورتمك verb (to poke)
- دورتمك verb (to prick with a goad)
Portuguese
2 entries- aguilhoar verb (to encourage)
- cutucar verb (to poke)
Russian
4 entries- коло́ть verb (to poke)
- побужда́ть verb (to encourage)
- подгоня́ть verb (to encourage)
- подстрека́ть verb (to encourage)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- stob verb (to poke)
Spanish
4 entries- aguijada noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- garrocha noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- picana noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- aguijar verb (to encourage)
Swedish
2 entries- elfösare noun (device used to goad livestock into moving)
- sticka verb (to poke)
Tocharian B
1 entries- wārw verb (to encourage)
Ukrainian
4 entries- колоти verb (to poke)
- підганяти verb (to encourage)
- підштовхувати verb (to encourage)
- штрикати verb (to poke)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Tom's so lazy that you have to prod him repeatedly to get him to do his share of the work.
Source: tatoeba (7744989)
It is the 4th of December of 2012. Today, Bratislav uses a long wooden stick to prod his dogs Chino and Rafa. He says that it is too cold to use the water spray bottle. He talks about the emerging Plasma Universe Paradigm. He says that space is not empty. I tell him what I read in Astronomy magazine about Jupiter-sized worlds, twice as many as stars, lonely worlds wandering unanchored to a sun, or primary star. Recently, I have been fantasizing of an elegant teahouse in orbit around such a giant world surrounded by sunless darkness. I call this quiet, eerie fantasy "La Teejo" in Esperanto, or undecidedly "la .tcat. .barj." in Lojban. Some men prefer a Bath and Sauna Dream.
Source: tatoeba (10722282)
Don't prod your food with your fork like that.
Source: tatoeba (11943187)
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