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urge English

Meaning urge meaning

What does urge mean?
Definitions in simple English

urge Noun

— An urge is a want to do something. After watching the basketball game, he had an urge to play too.

urge Verb

— To urge something is to press or push it forward. He urged me to go play basketball with him. I'm urging you to go with me.

urge

— verb force or impel in an indicated direction I urged him to finish his studies — verb (= recommend) push for something The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day — noun (= impulse) an instinctive motive profound religious impulses — noun a strong restless desire why this urge to travel? — verb (= cheer) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers

Synonyms urge synonyms

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urge English » English

impel encourage incite stimulate instigate prompt spur press spur on exhort drive prod persuade induce stir up hasten abet stir force trigger push recommend provocate impulse urge on inspire insist goad demand beg advise provoke hustle egg on compel encouragement coax advice rouse passion instigation influence incitement importune hurry cajole stimulation promote persist pep up

Topics urge topics

What do people use urge to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise
Language and thought Want Influence

Persuade
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Moods

Hortative
Language and thought

Want

Conjugation urge conjugation

How do you conjugate urge?

urge · verb

Examples urge examples

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Simple sentences

Advertisements urge us to buy luxuries.
I urge that you all read carefully.
Tom resisted the urge to scream.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Tom felt an urge to kiss Mary.
I suddenly felt the urge to jump off the bridge into the river.
I strongly urge that you read the contract carefully.
The urge to snack is hard to resist.
All forms of life have an instinctive urge to survive.
The urge to brag on his recent successes was irresistible.
I have an urge to buy something.
Tom felt an urge to kill Mary.
I urge everyone to do the same.

Movie subtitles

Well, if you don't, you need to join me for my week long marathon where I'm gonna teach you how to identify the symptoms, such as shortness of breath. heart palpitations, the urge to self-medicate with drugs and booze.
Urge your sovereigns to make eternal peace and the white plague will become history!
In the presence of beautiful things, did you have the sudden irresistible urge to take them in your hands and hurry away with them?
She doesn't urge it.
It would mean your giving up your career in Lochester so I can't urge you to take it, but I sincerely wish you would.
I strongly urge that this whole matter be turned over to the office of the district attorney.
Cases have been recorded in which the victims, driven by some abnormal urge, actually believed the blood of other people was necessary to keep them alive, became psychopathic killers in order to obtain it.
Satisfying a fundamental urge.
And if you urge me, I may even take a piece of pie.
I again urge you to study and consider United Zinc.
Henry took photograph after photograph, but seemed to have no urge whatever to follow it up with a visit to the darkroom.
I would urge you to be fired of their excellence.
The situation has changed since this afternoon, but I urge you to have no resentment.
I urge that you transmit that message to the nations of the Earth.
Salvago ought to restrain his urge for donation for a long time.
So I urge you to give it up.
Some urge that drove me on.
I strongly urge you go.
At 16 they get the urge for glamour.
I strongly urge that this whole matter be turned over to the office. of the district attorney.
But if his condition at the time is aggravated by excessive concentration. he'll have an urge to destroy anything that stands in his way.
Once a man has dipped his fingers in blood sooner or later he'll feel the urge to kill again.
You know, George, I feel that, in a small way, we're doing something important, satisfying a fundamental urge.
I try to get excited at the prospect of settling down minding my own business and making good but it only increases my urge to move on.
A sudden urge to merge with the Talbins.
Urge him to resume payments.
I want to do something big and something important. You know, George, I feel that, in a small way, we're doing something important, satisfying a fundamental urge.
When the urge hits you.
The situation has changed, but I urge you to have no resentment.
The act of a sick mind with an urge to destroy something young and lovely.
It was the act of a sick mind with an urge to destroy.
I got the urge, brother!
I got the urge!
But before you see him I urge you to find your boundary stones.
What's the urge?
What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?
I felt a vertiginous urge to stay there, spying, observing.

News and current affairs

Indeed, experience gives little reason to presume that a modern way of speaking, willingness to liberalize the economy, and an urge for technological development automatically translates into a democratic opening.
No wonder Fischer's quixotic pursuit of the championship led American policy mastermind Henry Kissinger to call Fischer and urge him not to back out, as he had threatened to do.
But it would at least head off one danger, namely the urge to accumulate even more reserves.
The international community can urge the Palestinians toward a decision.
This raises a basic credibility issue: how can Europe urge Colombia and Peru to reduce supply when its own drug habit is driving cultivation?
And I urge other donors to maintain or increase their support for building an open society in Ukraine.
Those with access to finance appear to be capable of resisting the urge to locate production in poor low-wage parts of the world (China aside).
COPENHAGEN - Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy.
This was the widely accepted approach toward German liability for the Holocaust, and there are many who urge the same approach toward America's responsibility for slavery.
We urge policymakers to take action and implement policies aimed at removing the obstacles that block women's participation in the workforce.
To be sure, excessive zeal in denouncing Israel, and cheap comparisons between Israeli violence and Nazi mass murder, betray a dubious urge to throw off the burdens of guilt.
The end of capitalism means simply the end of the urge to listen to it.
Nor do European governments display any such urge.
Third, there is at least one motivation behind the Arab revolts that permeates Western politics as well: the urge to forget the facts, the risks, and the future, and just throw the rascals out.
The EU must urge its Latin American partners towards further integration.
African civil society, whose mouthpiece is the press, cannot escape some measure of reproach for its failure to urge leaders to rescue fellow Africans.
I therefore urge all nations, rich and poor, to send their highest-level representatives to Doha with full determination to do what must be done.
As a result, the EU is constantly expanding, while the US likes to urge the world to democratize.
So, you pressure the IMF and the U.S. Treasury to urge Brazil, or Russia, or any other hapless IMF-loan recipient to defend its currency.
He felt an urge, and now the chips will fall and only he can pick up the pieces.
Last year, an Australian nephrologist, Gavin Carney, held a press conference in Canberra to urge that people be allowed to sell their kidneys.

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