urge

[urge]

If you have an urge to eat candy, you really want to eat those sweets. Your mother might urge you to wait until after dinner. As a noun, urge means a desire. As a verb, it means to strongly encourage.

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To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

Noun
a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?"

Noun
an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses"

Verb
force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies"

Verb
urge on or encourage especially by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"

Verb
push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"

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v. t.
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

v. t.
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

v. t.
To provoke; to exasperate.

v. t.
To press hard upon; to follow closely

v. t.
To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.

v. t.
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

v. i.
To press onward or forward.

v. i.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Urge

Urge , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Urged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Urging .] [L. urgere; akin to E. wreak. See Wreak, v. t.] 1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight.

2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.

3. To provoke; to exasperate. [R.]

Urge not my father's anger.

4. To press hard upon; to follow closely

Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case. 6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat. Syn. -- To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate; encourage.

Urge

Urge , v. i. 1. To press onward or forward. [R.] 2. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

To press onward or forward.

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Usage Examples

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

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Other Usage Examples

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.