From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
goaded \goaded\ adj.
compelled forcibly by an outside agency; as, mobs goaded by
blind hatred.
Syn: driven, forced.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Goad \Goad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Goaded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Goading.]
To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to
rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming;
to stimulate.
[1913 Webster]
That temptation that doth goad us on. --Shak.
Syn: To urge; stimulate; excite; arouse; irritate; incite;
instigate.
[1913 Webster]