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urge
- pronunciation:
- uhrj
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
urged, urges, urging |
| definition 1: |
to push or drive forward or onward.
We urged the horses along.- synonyms:
- drive
- similar words:
- goad, impel, press, prod, propel, push, spur
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| definition 2: |
to prompt, encourage, or try to persuade.
They urged us to stay.- synonyms:
- encourage
- similar words:
- adjure, admonish, advise, beseech, coax, entreat, exhort, invite, lobby, move, plead with, press, pressure, prompt, push, spur on
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| definition 3: |
to advocate or demand earnestly or emphatically.
We urge your participation.- synonyms:
- advocate, counsel
- similar words:
- admonish, advise, back, champion, compel, demand, encourage, entreat, recommend
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| definition 4: |
to press, hasten, or impel to a course of action.
- synonyms:
- impel, incite, move, prompt, push, rouse
- similar words:
- compel, egg on, fillip, goad, induce, lobby, press, prevail on, prod, provoke, spur on
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| related words: |
accelerate, advance, ask, beg, canvass, charge, counsel, crowd, enforce, hustle, implore, incite, insist, move, postulate, preach, prevail, require, solicit, suggest, thrust, warn, welcome, whip |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to exert an impelling force.
- similar words:
- push
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| definition 2: |
to recommend earnestly; press an argument or claim.
- similar words:
- exhort
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| related words: |
coax, implore, require, thrust |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the act or process of urging.
- similar words:
- impulsion, instigation, prompting, push
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| definition 2: |
an involuntary or natural impulse or desire to do something.
- synonyms:
- drive
- similar words:
- craving, desire, impulse, inclination, itch, longing, proclivity, propensity, yearning, yen
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| related words: |
compulsion, hunger, instinct, mind, passion, prod, thrust, whim |
| derivations: |
urgingly (adv.), urger (n.) |
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