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/ˈərdʒɪŋ/ 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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Etymology of 'Urging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... about him and Marechal. It's too silly. Just to think that Blanche has had the cheek to want to lay the blame of it on me! I said to her: 'Did I tell him to steal?' Don't you think one can ask a man for money without urging him to commit crime? If he had said to me, 'I've got nothing left,' I should have said to him, 'All right, let's part.' And the ...

— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola

... clatter of hoofs, knowing that there could be no escape for the mounted Redskins up the steep hillsides. Midway along the defile, where it widened beyond a projecting spur of cliff, they saw the Indians driving the stolen herd of horses before them, urging them with yells ...

— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton

... about half finished it became evident to Maria that she and Evelyn must call upon Mrs. Lee, Wollaston's mother. She had put it off as long as she could, although all the other teachers had called, and Aunt Maria had kept urging her to ...

— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... Jesus, was a close personal friend of Charles II. during the latter's exile on the Continent, and after the Restoration enjoyed a pension from the king. Shortly after his appointment an outcry was raised against him because he and his brother, Colonel Talbot, were supposed to be urging a re-examination of the Act of Settlement, and Charles II. was weak enough to sign a decree banishing him from the kingdom. He returned to Ireland only in 1677, the year in which Ormond arrived for his last term of office ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... so impressed itself upon the reader that on the appearance of Rhona's first letter in the Athenaeum, where the poem was printed in fragments, I got among other letters one from the sweet poet and adorable woman Jean Ingelow, who was then very ill,—near her death indeed,—urging me to tell her whether Rhona's love-letter was not a versification of a real letter from a real Gypsy to her lover. As it was obviously impossible for me to answer the queries individually, I take this opportunity of ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

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