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eggs on

/ɛɡz ɒn/

/ɛɡz ɑn/

egg onverb

eggs on

egged on

Past Simple

egged on

Past Participle

egging on

Gerund

/ɛɡ ɒn/

/ɛɡ ɑn/

Translations

He tried to egg on his friends to skip school.

Он пытался подстрекать своих друзей прогулять школу.

Additional translations

Definitions

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.

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