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goad

 
 
/gəʊd/ verb [T]

Translation

to make someone angry or annoyed so that they react in the way that you want
kışkırtmak, rahatsız etmek, dürtmek
[+ into + doing sth] They tried to goad us into attacking the police.1160989
(Definition of goad verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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