(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
A ~ is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
N-COUNT
2.
If you ~ someone, you repeatedly tell them to do something or repeatedly ask them questions.
She ~ed her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something...
They kept phoning and writing, ~ing me to go back...
Richard’s mother ~ed him into taking a Spanish wife.
VERB: V n, V n to-inf, V n into n/-ing