Urge

//ɜːd͡ʒ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A strong desire to do something.

    "After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle."

  2. 2
    a strong restless desire wordnet
  3. 3
    an instinctive motive wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. transitive

    "Lo hapless Tydeus, whose ill-fated hand / Had slain his brother, leaves his native land, / And seized with horror in the shades of night, / Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight[…]"

  2. 2
    force or impel in an indicated direction wordnet
  3. 3
    To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. transitive

    "My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise."

  4. 4
    spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts wordnet
  5. 5
    To provoke; to exasperate. transitive

    "Vrge not my fathers anger (Eglamoure) / But thinke vpon my griefe (a Ladies griefe) / And on the iuſtice of my flying hence, / To keepe me from a moſt vnholy match, / Which heauen and fortune ſtill rewards with plagues."

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  1. 6
    push for something wordnet
  2. 7
    To press hard upon; to follow closely. transitive

    "Man ? and for ever ? wretch ! what wouldst thou have ? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave."

  3. 8
    To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon. transitive

    "to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case"

  4. 9
    To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with. obsolete, transitive

    "to urge an ore with intense heat"

  5. 10
    To press onward or forward. transitive
  6. 11
    To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin urgeō (“urge”).

Etymology 2

From Latin urgeō (“urge”).

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