Antonyms for spur
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1. spur

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

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

Matched Categories

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

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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

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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

How to use spur in a sentence?

1. John Beck:

   Michigan State University’s probably more a spur toaction than a huge death knell.

2. Yumi Ishikawa:

   This might spur that kind of action, so I think this is going in a good direction.

3. Pena Nieto:

   This opening to imports of third parties is a forceful action that will spur a high level of private investment.

4. 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 ?

5. Francis Quarles:

   Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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