urge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a strong restless desire

   why this urge to travel?

2. 2
   verb

   force or impel in an indicated direction

   I urged them to finish their studies.

3. 3
   noun

   A strong desire to do something.

   After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle.

4. 4
   verb

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

   Lo hapless Tydeus, whose ill-fated hand / Had slain his brother, leaves his native land, / And seized with horror in the shades of night, / Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight[…]

5. 5
   verb

   To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

   My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise.

6. 6
   verb

   To provoke; to exasperate.

   Vrge not my fathers anger (Eglamoure) / But thinke vpon my griefe (a Ladies griefe) / And on the iuſtice of my flying hence, / To keepe me from a moſt vnholy match, / Which heauen and fortune ſtill rewards with plagues.

7. 7
   verb

   To press hard upon; to follow closely.

   Man ? and for ever ? wretch ! what wouldst thou have ? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

8. 8
   verb

   To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.

   to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case

Etymology

From Latin urgeō (“urge”).