Urge

ahd-5
  • intransitive verb. To force or drive forward or onward; impel.
  • intransitive verb. To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.
  • intransitive verb. To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for.
  • intransitive verb. To stimulate; excite.
  • intransitive verb. To move or impel to action, effort, or speed; spur.
  • intransitive verb. To exert an impelling force; push vigorously.
  • intransitive verb. To present a forceful argument, claim, or case.
  • noun. The act of urging.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An impulse that prompts action or effort.
  • noun. An involuntary tendency to perform a given activity; an instinct.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of urging; impulse.
  • To press; impel; force onward.
  • To hasten laboriously; quicken with effort.
  • To press the mind or will of; serve as a motive or impelling cause; impel; constrain; spur.
  • To press or ply hard with arguments, entreaties, or the like; request with earnestness; importune; solicit earnestly.
  • To press upon attention; present in an earnest manner; press by way of argument or in opposition; insist on; allege in extenuation, justification, or defense: as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.
  • To ply hard in a contest or an argument; attack briskly.
  • To provoke; incite; exasperate.
  • To press on or forward.
  • To incite; stimulate; impel.
  • To make a claim; insist; persist.
  • To produce arguments or proofs; make allegations; declare.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To press onward or forward.
  • intransitive verb. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
  • transitive verb. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
  • transitive verb. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
  • transitive verb. To provoke; to exasperate.
  • transitive verb. To press hard upon; to follow closely.
  • transitive verb. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon
  • transitive verb. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A strong desire; an itch to do something.
  • verb. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
  • verb. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
  • verb. To provoke; to exasperate.
  • verb. To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
  • verb. (obsolete): To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
  • verb. To press onward or forward.
  • verb. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a strong restless desire
  • verb. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  • verb. force or impel in an indicated direction
  • verb. push for something
  • noun. an instinctive motive
  • Word Usage
    "I won't, because I can no longer abide physicians, but the urge is there."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    restrain  
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    advise  desire  propose  suggest  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    converge  dirge  diverge  emerge  merge  
    Same Context
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    verb-form
    urged  urges  urging