📖 Определения и значения для слова prod
📒 to push somebody/something with your finger or with a pointed object
- prod somebody/something (+ adv./prep.) She prodded him in the ribs to wake him up.
- She prodded the dry ground with a stick.
- prod at somebody/something He prodded at his breakfast with a fork.
📒 to try to make somebody do something, especially when they are unwilling
- prod somebody into something She finally prodded him into action.
- prod somebody into doing something Institutions were prodded into changing over to commercial management structures.
- prod (somebody) + speech ‘You still haven't answered my question,’ she prodded him.