Synonyms for spur
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1. spur

   Synonyms:
   incite, goad, instigate, impel, urge, stimulate

   Antonyms:
   rein, inhibit, hold, discourage, deter, dissuade, restrain, temper, moderate

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1. goad, goading, prod, prodding, urging, spur, spurringnoun

   a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

   "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves"

   Synonyms:
   spur track, goading, spurring, prod, prodding, gad, importunity, urgency, urging, goad, acantha, spine, branch line

2. spur, spine, acanthanoun

   any sharply pointed projection

   Synonyms:
   gad, prod, sticker, spikelet, goading, urging, prickle, pricker, spine, thorn, spurring, spinal column, back, branch line, backbone, acantha, spur track, rachis, prodding, goad, vertebral column

3. spurnoun

   tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers

   Synonyms:
   spur track, goading, spurring, prod, prodding, gad, spine, urging, acantha, branch line, goad

4. spur, gadnoun

   a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

   "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on"

   Synonyms:
   generalized anxiety disorder, spur track, goading, spurring, prod, prodding, gad, spine, urging, acantha, branch line, goad, anxiety reaction

5. branch line, spur track, spurverb

   a railway line connected to a trunk line

   Synonyms:
   spur track, goading, spurring, prod, goad, gad, spine, urging, acantha, prodding, branch line

6. spurverb

   incite or stimulate

   "The Academy was formed to spur research"

   Synonyms:
   goad

7. spur, goadverb

   give heart or courage to

   Synonyms:
   needle, goad, prick

8. spurverb

   strike with a spur

   Synonyms:
   goad

9. spurverb

   goad with spurs

   "the rider spurred his horse"

   Synonyms:
   goad

10. spurverb

    equip with spurs

    "spur horses"

    Synonyms:
    goad

Matched Categories

1. • Encourage
   • Encouragement
   • Equip
   • Goad
   • Plant Process
   • Projection
   • Promote
   • Strike

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1. actuate

   anything that pushes someone or something forward

   her mother's motivational talk spurred her daughter to endure high school.

   Submitted by rinat on June 1, 2017  

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1. spurnoun

   Synonyms:
   goad, prick, point, rowel

2. spurnoun

   Synonyms:
   incitement, stimulus, incentive, impulse, inducement, instigation, provocation, motive

3. spurnoun

   Synonyms:
   snag, point, knot, gnarl, knob, projection

4. spurnoun

   Synonyms:
   ergot, horn-seed, spurred rye

5. spurverb

   Synonyms:
   prick (with the spur)

6. spurverb

   Synonyms:
   stimulate, incite, rouse, arouse, goad, induce, instigate, impel, urge forward, drive

7. spurverb

   Synonyms:
   prick, gallop, hasten, press forward, press on

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1. spurnoun

   Synonyms:
   rowel, goad, prick, snag, projection, incitement, stimulus, goad, incentive, instigation, impetus, provocation, spine (on a cock's leg)

2. spurverb

   Synonyms:
   goad, incite, urge, stimulate, instigate, impel

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1. List of paraphrases for "spur":

   stimulate, epi, spike, encourage, talon, incentive, stimulus, galvanise, boost, ips

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1. Anthony Scaramucci:

   Our goal has always been to empower big, important ideas and foster a community to address shared challenges, we’re also bringing SALT to NYC for the first time to help spur revitalization efforts in the city, and want to demonstrate leadership by returning to some semblance of normalcy while maintaining a safe environment for our attendees.

2. Paul Northcott:

   Paul Northcott said. Grants for early investigators like Paul Northcott may also help them obtain bigger funding opportunities through the National Institutes of Health( National Institutes of Health). We're able to recruit, we're able to conduct studies that we wouldn't have been able to otherwise. This then helps us build the necessary foundation to go after National Institutes of Health funding and getting that first RO1 through the NCI( National Cancer Institute), Paul Northcott said. One of the toughest hurdles for young investigators is securing their first R01, the gold standard of grants that give scientists enough money and time to complete a project and publish results within four or five years. The budget for R01’s is unlimited. According to the director of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Norman Sharpless, the NCI is directing their extramural funders to set aside additional funding to increase the total number of first R01's given to early-stage investigators by at least 25 percent in 2018. By training more diverse groups of scientists, organizations like the National Cancer Institute hope to spur new commitments to basic science that can drive novel approaches and technologies to cancer treatment. Paul Northcott says supporting the next generation of cancer scientists is crucial to ensuring a talented and creative research workforce for the decades ahead. Oftentimes it’s difficult to see how studying a single gene or a pathway or a biochemical mechanism might have a broader impact, but I would encourage anyone involved and anyone starting out in this type of field to think about what is the goal of Cancer Research -LRB- AACR -RRB- ? How can this research change health care, or, in this case, cancer research ?

3. D. H. Lawrence:

   We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

4. Scott Minerd:

   The ongoing market turmoil puts further rate hikes by the Federal Reserve on hold and increases pressure on China to make radical adjustments, such as a rapid devaluation of the yuan to spur growth in domestic export industries, while these policy moves are likely to cause violent swings in prices for risk assets, it could accelerate global rebalancing, allowing growth to stabilize while buying more time for an orderly restructuring of global debts.

5. Letitia James:

   As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate, while we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents.