egg on
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
urge on; cause to act
The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- incitement derivation
- urging derivation
- incitation derivation
- instigator derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | incitement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | urging |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | incitation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigator |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | goose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | halloo |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | goad |