Egg Egged Sb Meaning Encourage Foolish Risky Synonym

Meaning: If you egg someone on, you encourage them to do something foolish or risky.

• egg sb on Janice had already had too much to drink, but her friends egged her on, trying to make her drink even more.
  
  
• be egged on by sb If he hadn't been egged on by the other kids, Kenny would never have smoked that first cigarette. He hated the smell.