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egg on

/ɛɡ ɒn/

/ɛɡ ɑn/

Translations

egg onverb

egged on

Past Simple

egged on

Past Participle

egging on

Gerund

/ɛɡ ɒn/

/ɛɡ ɑn/

He tried to egg on his friends to skip school.

Он пытался подстрекать своих друзей прогулять школу.

Additional translations

Synonyms

egg onverb

To encourage or incite someone to do something, often something risky or foolish.

He wouldn't have jumped off the cliff if his friends hadn't egged him on.