معنای فرهنگ لغت "محور" تحریک یا تحریک کسی برای انجام عمل است، اغلب با تحریک یا تحریک کردن او. همچنین می تواند به استفاده از ابزار نوک تیز مانند چوب یا خار برای تشویق حیوان به حرکت در جهت خاصی اشاره داشته باشد.
The book was open at a hymn not ill adapted to their situation, and in which the poet, no longer goaded by his desire to excel the inspired King of Israel, had discovered some chastened and respectable powers.
His presentiments were realized, as we shall see, and his uneasy forebodings had goaded him pale and trembling to the gate under the chestnut-trees.
One time when he had a television camera shoved in his face while he and Reyna were fixing a broken window, Reyna goaded him into speaking because it was Helen, after all.
His eyes narrowed, goaded by the insult he turned on Jack, exposing his back to his opponent.
He might not have been so hasty if he had known that his departure was also in the mind of the man who had goaded him.
While goaded incessantly by these revengeful impulses that in a savage seldom slumber, the chief was still attentive to his more permanent personal interests.
