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Urge   /ərdʒ/   Listen
verb
Urge  v. t.  (past & past part. urged; pres. part. urging)  
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.
Synonyms: To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate; encourage.


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





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"Urge" Quotes from Famous Books



... she felt, I did not urge her, but told her to go and pray about it for a day, and bring me her answer after the funeral that night. When she came that evening her face was shining through tears, as she said: "O my Shepherd Mother, I will go. If you are willing to risk your children for the sake of my sisters, how much more ...
— How I Know God Answers Prayer - The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time • Rosalind Goforth
... displayed some knowledge of the workings of the heart when he remarked, in substance, that, although the lover might proceed at a moderate gait for some distance, it would not be long before the thoughts of Edith would urge him to as great exertions as he had displayed during the height of the chase. True to what he had said, O'Hara noticed that his footsteps gradually lengthened until it was manifest that he had been ...
— The Riflemen of the Miami • Edward S. Ellis
... penitential. A well-dressed crowd, their tailors all unpaid, Throng round you there, and cuffs and collars glisten; Of pity's blindness, as of scorn, afraid, I shun the merry fray, and darkling listen, For who could urge the timidest of suits, Conscious of such indifferent clothes ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 5, 1891 • Various
... see now, 'tis a general conspiracy embracing all Greece. Go you back to Sparta and bid them send Envoys with plenary powers to treat for peace. I will urge our Senators myself to name Plenipotentiaries from us; and to persuade them, why, I will show them this. ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... She might just as well have fancied that it is better to put one's cold hands into the fire than to hold them at some distance when wishing to warm them. The child's face was made greatly worse, of course, and the cure abandoned. It is therefore necessary to urge that a strength of acid which secures only the most gentle sensation of smarting is essential to cure. The weak vinegar is first applied to the outer and less fiery parts of the outstrike. Try to heal from this inwards, by gradual advances from day to day. On ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk


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