urge

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Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

From Latin urgeō (“urge”).

A strong desire to do something. After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle.

transitive 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[…]
transitive 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.
transitive 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.
transitive To press hard upon; to follow closely. Man ? and for ever ? wretch ! what wouldst thou have ? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
transitive To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon. to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case
obsolete, transitive To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with. to urge an ore with intense heat
transitive To press onward or forward.
transitive To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.