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v. To force or drive forward or onward; impel.

v. To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.

v. To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for: urge passage of the bill; a speech urging moderation.

v. To stimulate; excite: "It urged him to an intensity like madness” ( D.H. Lawrence).

v. To move or impel to action, effort, or speed; spur.

verb-intransitive. To exert an impelling force; push vigorously.

verb-intransitive. To present a forceful argument, claim, or case.

n. The act of urging.

n. An impulse that prompts action or effort: suppressed an urge to laugh.

n. An involuntary tendency to perform a given activity; an instinct: "There is a human urge to clarify, rationalize, justify” ( Leonard Bernstein).

n. A strong desire; an itch to do something.

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

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

v. To provoke; to exasperate.

v. To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.

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

v. To press onward or forward.

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

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

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

v. To provoke; to exasperate.

v. To press hard upon; to follow closely.

v. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon

v. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.

verb-intransitive. To press onward or forward.

verb-intransitive. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

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.

n. The act of urging; impulse.

n. a strong restless desire

v. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

v. force or impel in an indicated direction

v. push for something

n. an instinctive motive

"I won't, because I can no longer abide physicians, but the urge is there."

restrain   

urged    urges    urging   

desire    propose    advise    suggest   

encourage    drive    exhort    hasten    prosecute    surge   

urgent   

press    push    drive    impel    provoke    exasperate    insist    persist    hound    spur   

converge    dirge    diverge    emerge    merge    purge    reemerge    scourge    serge    splurge   

impulse    crave    compulsion    hunger    yearn    inclination    temptation    attraction    anxiety    regret