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Urgent

//ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Requiring immediate attention.

    "An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance."

  2. 2
    Of people: insistent, solicitous.

    "The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste."

Adjective
  1. 1
    compelling immediate action wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.

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