Urge

Definition: Urge

Urge

Noun

1. An instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses".

2. A strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?".

Verb

1. Force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies".

2. Push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day".

3. Urge on or encourage esp. by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "urge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Business

Medicine

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Synonyms: Urge

Haste

Quicken; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.

Impulse

Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug.

Motive

Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate.

Request

Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

Violence

Render violent; Adjective: sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.

Crosswords: Urge

Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch 'em in the face, and for what (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I just can't help it, I have this uncontrollable urge to eat meat (The Day the World Ended; writing credit: Lou Rusoff)

But you still got the urge. They don't cut it off or nothin' (Firefly; writing credit: Michael Mates)

For the same reason he became a vampire last night -- to satisfy some physical need or urge. (Zaat; writing credit: Ron Kivett; Lee O. Larew)

I carry this with me whenever I can, so if I ever get the urge to make myself over, I just look at this, and damn near throw up. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

We tripped, On the urge to feel alive, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)

Necrophillia: That Uncontrollable Urge To Crack Open A Cold One. (references; author: unknown)

The Sinister Urge (1961)

Urge to Kill (1960)

The Mating Urge (1960)

That Wonderful Urge (1948)

C.U.M.: Conventional Urge Management (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development (reference)

• The Urge to Happiness (Dual Sensitivities, Volume One) (reference)

• Unspeakable Urge (reference)

• Urge to Kill: How Police Take Homicide from Case to Court (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Urge to Kill (reference)

• Urge to Kill (Audio Described) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Sinister Urge [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if the want of such instances be an argument to prove that government were not, nor could not be so begun, I suppose the contenders for paternal empire were better let it alone, than urge it against natural liberty: for if they can give so many instances, out of history, of governments begun upon paternal right, I think (though at best an argument from what has been, to what should of right be, has no great force) one might, without any great danger, yield them the cause. (Second Treatise of Government)

When the designs of wicked men or the aggressive urge of mighty States dissolve over large areas the frame of civilized society, humble folk are confronted with difficulties with which they cannot cope. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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A note was written to urge it.

To that we urge.

He saw her urge her vanities, her fine dress and sash and long black stockings, and knew that he had yielded to them a thousand times

Urge neither charity nor shame to me.

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Health

Do not ignore the urge to have a bowel movement. (references)

That's when you get the urge to go to the bathroom. (references)

You can also learn to decrease the urge to urinate. (references)

Children

Haiti

Radio commercials urge parents not to abuse their children physically or mentally. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

The President continued to urge that areas of the NSL be revised to protect human rights and make the law conducive to North-South détente. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Western economists urge the government to relentlessly adopt policies to promote the private sector and labor-intensive export industries to generate jobs. (references)

Human Rights

Liberia

A local human rights organization sponsored a conference in March 2000 to urge that trial-by-ordeal be abolished throughout the country; however, no further action was taken. (references)

Russia

A number of organizations, including the Committee of Concerned Scientists, contacted the authorities to urge them to stop their efforts to prevent the dissemination of information on environmental pollution. (references)

New Zealand

The Police Complaints Authority accepted 2,468 complaints in 2000-01, which was a 1.64 percent increase over the previous year; however, the number of cases upheld declined by over 5 percent (from 159 to 150). There were only 3 cases of police misconduct in 2000 that involved deaths, down from 11 in 1999 and 21 in 1997-98. In another case, in May 2000, a police officer fatally shot a Maori youth, leading public officials, including the Prime Minister, to urge better police-Maori relations. (references)

Minorities

Sweden

The public continued to urge a tougher stance against neo-Nazi groups. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

Furthermore, the United States continues to urge Japan to establish a strong independent regulator for the telecom business. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Since the election of Laurent Gbagbo in October 2000, the U.S. continues to urge the new government to address human rights, growing government and police corruption, and national reconciliation. (references)

Political Rights

Cuba

The Government saturated the media and used government ministries, Communist Party entities, and mass organizations to urge voters to cast a "unified vote" where marking one box automatically selected all candidates on the ballot form. (references)

Trade

Cyprus

The U.S. Embassy will continue to urge the Government of Cyprus to rescind this law. (references)

Bulgaria

U.S. Government policy is to urge Bulgaria to reduce its tariffs for non-EU products. (references)

Travel

Egypt

In light of this information, we urge Americans to be vigilant and exercise good security practices while in Egypt. (references)

Women

Cote d'Ivoire

However, a victim's own parents often urge withdrawal of a complaint because of the shame that attaches to the entire family. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

The Department of Manpower continues publicly to urge employers to comply with the law. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "urge": creative urge ♦ feel an urge to do smth. ♦ feel the urge to win ♦ have an urge to do smth. ♦ sex urge ♦ sexual urge ♦ urge against ♦ urge for knowledge ♦ urge forward ♦ urge incontinence ♦ urge into ♦ urge on ♦ urge smb. on to do smth. ♦ urge smb. onward ♦ urge smb. to do smth. ♦ urge smth. on smb. ♦ urge smth. upon smb. ♦ urge to travel ♦ urge urinary incontinence. Additional references.

Albanian

stimuloj (fillip, incite, prod, stimulate), shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, waive, walk), nxitje (abetment, challenge, cheer, countenance, dare, dig, drive, egging, encouragement, exhortation, fomentation, impetus, impulsion, incentive, incitement, inducement, instancy, instigation, kick, oestrum, oestrus, pressure, prod, prompt, prompting, stimulation, stimulus), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, whet, whip, whip up, work up), dëshirë e fortë (crush, thirst, unction). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نبه (awaken, excite, exhilarate, jog, remind, stimulate, waken, whet), ‏تابع (adherent, attached, citizen, dependent, disciple, follow, follow up, follower, following, forward, function, get on, go ahead, keep an eye on, page, post, press, pursue, put up with, redirect, satellite, send on, sub, subject, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, subsidiary, tributary, under one's thumb, underlying, vassal), ‏جادل (argue, contend, debate, fuss, join issue with, quibble, reason, talk over), ‏إندفع (bicker, break out, dash, fling, flush, lunge, make, precipitate, regurgitate, rip, rush, scramble, stampede, stream, surge, swarm, tumble, zip), ‏إلحاح (importunity, insistence, instancy, objurgation, pertinacity, urgency), ‏إستحث (arouse, bustle), ‏إستعجال, ‏ألح (insist, press, stickle), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏دفع بقوة (strain), ‏دافع (advocate, apologize, assert, buckler, champion, cushion, defend, guard, guard against, hold off, impetus, impulse, impulsive, inducement, motive, object, payer, projectile, propellant, propeller, propulsive, repulsive, score, stand for, stick up for, vindicate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обръщам внимание на (heed, mind, take notice of), импулс (impulse, inspiration, momentum, motion, pulse, signal), искам настойчиво (insist), подканвам (invite, motivate), подтик (drive, fillip, goad, hypo, impulse, incentive, inducement, prompting, propulsion, push, relish, sanction, spur, stimulus, whet), порив (air blast, gust, impulse, movements, spirit, transport), изтъквам (accent, accentuate, adduce, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, feature, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, represent, show off, show up, signalize, single out, throw up), моля настойчиво (entreat, importune), стимулирам (animate, brace, excite, exhilarate, goad, innervate, irritate, quicken, stimulate), копнеж (ache, hankering, hunger, yearning, yen), тласък (fillip, impetus, impulse, jerk, propulsion, pulse, push, shock, shove, thrust), служа (celebrate, minister, serve), убеждавам (admonish, argue, assure, coax, convince, exhort, induce, lead, persuade, press, prevail, satisfy, talk over, win), увещавам (admonish, exhort, expostulate, persuade, reason with, remonstrate), ускорявам (accelerate, activate, advance, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, smarten up, speed up, trigger, zip), предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, elicit, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, work up). (various references)

Chinese 

趲 (hasten), 敦促 (Urged, urging), 激勵 (encourage), 恿 (incite), 勸告 (advice, exhort), 催促 , 催 (expedite, hurry, press, prompt), 促使 (spur on, to bring about, to cause). (various references)

Czech

usilovat o (aim at smth., go after, seek for, stand out), tvrdit (allege, allow, argue, assert, aver, claim, predicate, represent, submit, sustain), touha (ambition, aspiration, craving, desire, hunger, longing, thirst, wish, yearning, yen), pud (drive, instinct), potřeba (need, occasion, requirement, requisite, want), pobízet (cheer, put up, spur, underbid, urge on), nutnost (necessity, need, occasion, urgency), nutkání (compulsion, impulse), nucení (compulsion, forcing), naléhavost (imminence, press, urgency), naléhat (insist on, press on, urge on), nabádat (admonish, encourage, exhort, impel, instigate, spur), hnát se (belt, career, hurtle, plunge, pursue, push on, race, rush, shift, shoot, spurt, tear along). (various references)

Danish

trang (appetence, craving, drive, impetus, impulse, instinct, nisus, striving), straeben (drive, impulse, instinct), nisus (drive, nisus, striving), impetus (impetus), drift (conation, cultivation, drift, drive, drove, farming, impulse, instinct, management, Operation, revenue). (various references)

Dutch

aanwakkeren (abet, agitate, encourage, excite, fan, fire, freshen, impel, increase, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up), aanvuren (abet, cheer, encourage, fan, fire, impel, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up), aansporen (abet, admonish, encourage, impel, instigate, rouse, scold, spur on, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

Esperanto

urĝi (hurry, press), instigi (encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, stimulate). (various references)

Faeroese

skunda (hurry, press), elva (abet, advance, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, stimulate, suggest), eggja til (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, stimulate). (various references)

Farsi 

تسریع شدن (Quicken), انگیزش (Incitement, Provacation), انگیختن (Fire, Inanimate, Incite, Motive, Occasion, Stimulate), اصرارکردن (Haggle, Persist), ابرام کردن (Importune), بااصراروادارکردن . (various references)

Finnish

yllyttää (abet, egg on, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, spur on, stimulate). (various references)

French

presser. (various references)

Frisian

oanwakkerje (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, stimulate), oanwakkereje (abet, fan, fire, inspire, stimulate, stir up), oantrune (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up), oantrúnje (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up), oanhysje (abet, cheer, encourage, excite, fire, impel, incite, inspire, instigate, provoke, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up), oanfjurje (abet, cheer, encourage, fire, impel, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up), oanfiterje (abet, cheer, encourage, fire, impel, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

German

drängen (crowd, force, hurry, hustle, insist, press, push, push out, rush, shove, thrust, to hustle, to press, to rush), Trieb (access, coasted, desire, drive, impetus, impulse, impulsion, inclination, instinct, push, shoot, sprout, tided, wreaked), pressieren (be in a hurry, hurry, press), antreiben (abet, actuate, drive, encourage, fan, fire, force, goad, hurry, hurry on, impel, inspire, instigate, move, power, propel, push, speed, speed up, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge on, wash ashore, wash up, whip on, whip up). (various references)

Greek 

παρακινώ (abet, actuate, egg on, exhort, impel, incite, induce, motivate, prod, prompt, spur, stimulate), παροτρύνω (coax, exhort, goad, impel, promote). (various references)

Hebrew 

יצר (compose, create, creature, desire, impulse, inclination, instinct, lust, nature), לפצור (beg, entreat, implore, plead), לזרז (expedite, hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken), ל�"מריץ (drive, encourage, goad, hearten, impel, instigate, spirit, spur, stimulate, stir up, tone up), ל�"פציר (beg, beseech, entreat, implore, insist, plead, press, solicit), ל�"איץ (accelerate, hurry, precipitate, press, quicken, speed up), ל�"� יע (activate, disturb, drive, impel, induce, motivate, prompt, propel, set in motion, stir), ל�"חוק (importune, oppress, pack, pinch, press, squeeze, thrust), ל�"חוף (drive, impel, jog, jostle, lunge, push, shove, thrust), ל�"רבן (egg on, goad, prod, spur, stimulate, sting, stir up), לסר�"ב (beseech, hasten, importune, press), ל� חוץ (press), ל� �'וש (exact, oppress, press), תשוק�" (craving, desire, itch, lust, passion, rage, thirst, yen), �"חף (impetus, impulse, push, thrust). (various references)

Hungarian

siettet (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, hasten, hurry, hurry up, press on, to accelerate, to antedate, to anticipate, to be not slow to, to expedite, to precipitate, to press forward, to press on), kényszer (coercion, cogency, compulsion, constraint, duress, force, pressure), belső ösztönzés, ösztönzés (fillip, fomentation, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, instigation, motivation, prompting, spur, stimulation), ösztökél (egg on, impel, instigate, stimulate, to edge on, to egg on, to egg sy on to do sg, to egg sy to do sg, to foment, to impel, to jack up, to prod, to spur, to stimulate). (various references)

Indonesian

mengasaki (insist), mendesak (adjure, badger, exhort, shove, supplant, urgent), keinginan (eagerness, pretension, wish), gubel (coax), gencet (squeeze, suppress). (various references)

Irish

spreag. (various references)

Italian

impulso (actuation, boost, drive, impetus, impulse, momentum, propulsion, pulse, push, sway). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

衝動 (impulse), 督励 (encouragement), 督促 (demand, importunity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうどう (advocacy, converting someone to Buddhism, impulse, leading), さいそく (by-laws, claim, demand, detailed regulations, press for, request), とくそく (demand, importunity), とくれい (encouragement, exception, special case). (various references)

Korean 

충동 (impulsive). (various references)

Pig Latin

eurgay.(various references)

Polish

ponaglać (hurry, press), być pilnym (hurry, press). (various references)

Portuguese

instigar (actuate, call up, egg on, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, push, put, put on, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, tempt), instar (hurry, insist, press), incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, egg on, encourage, excite, goad, halloo, impel, incite, instigate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, stir up), impelir (drift, drive, encourage, impel, instigate, prompt, push, rush, shove, spur on, stimulate, thrust), apressar (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, press, quicken, rush, speed). (various references)

Romanian

urgenta (expedite), obliga (bind, coerce, compel, constrain, determine, dictate, enforce, engage, force, make, necessitate, obligate, oblige, plight), îndemn (admonishment, impulse, incentive, inducement), îndemna (advise, charge, court, egg, exhort, goad, hunch, impel, incite, induce, needle, prick, prod, prompt, punch, push, rouse, set smb. doing smth., spank, spur, stimulate), aţîţa (abet, encourage, excite, impel, incite, instigate, provoke, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up), alerga (career, chase, collide, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hasten, hurry, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, spank, walk), cere (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, bid, cadge, call for, challenge, charge, claim, command, court, demand, desire, exact, expect, have, implore, involve, necessitate, petition, request, require, require smth. of smb., Sue), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, call forth, cause, conditional, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason), dorinţã (accord, appetence, appetency, appetite, craving for, desideratum, desire, device, lust, mind, notion, request, requirement, run, wish, yearning), forţa (break, compel, constrain, endeavor, endeavour, force, huff, impose, open, ravish, stretch, violate), gråbi (hurry, press), îmbia (attract, entice), instiga (abet, egg, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, provoke, spur on, stimulate), zori (bustle, cock crow, crowd, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, hasten, hurry, hustle, morning, press, quicken, reveille, rush, spur, spur on), opinti (encourage), pistona, porni (begin, commence, goad, move, put away, sail, set, set in motion, stand, start, start for, take to, unleash), presa (calender, compress, crowd, dun, force, impact, jam, journalism, nip, press, push, squeeze, stress), provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, call forth, cause, challenge, create, dare, defy, elicit, encourage, excite, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, work up), sili (bind, coerce, compel, constrain, endeavor, endeavour, force, huff, necessitate, oblige, push on, squeeze, try), stãrui (abide, continue, insist, persevere, subsist), stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, whet), impuls (drive, fillip, gadfly, impetus, impulse, impulsion, momentum, motion, spur, stimulus, swing). (various references)

Russian 

понуждать;убеждать, понуждать (hustle), побуждение (drive, exhortation, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitement, inducement, motion, motive, oestrum, oestrus, persuasive, prompting), подгонять (customize, dovetail, goad, hurry, match, pepped, pinch, wing), импульс (impetus, impulse, impulsion, momentum, oestrum, oestrus, propulsion, pulse). (various references)

Scottish

purr (butt, drive, strike with the head, thrust), greas (go fast, hasten, hurry, incite to speed : greas ort, rush), coitich (press one to take something, press one to take something: *con-tec-). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

urgirati, zauzimati se (support), terati (bay, drive, drive away, force, make), težnja (aspiration, liking, pursuance, pursuit, tendency), saletati (assail, besiege, importune, pester, ply, solicit), podsticati (pander to, prod, spur), nagon (drive, instinct). (various references)

Spanish

incitar (abet, cheer, encourage, fan, fire, impel, incite, inciter, inspire, instigate, provoke, put up, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, urge on), inpulsar (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, stimulate), impulso (drive, impeller, impetus, impulse, momentum, pulse), espolear (abet, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, prick, rouse, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir up), animar (abet, animate, brighten up, brisk, buck up, cheer, embolden, encourage, enliven, fan, fire, hearten, impel, inspire, inspirit, instigate, jazz, lift, liven, liven up, pep up, perk up, pull for, reman, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge on). (various references)

Swedish

uppmana (call on, exhort, invite, request, tell, warn), yrka (apply for, demand, insist, move for, plead), truga, tillhålla, stark längtan, mana (exhort, incite), ivra för, framhäva (bring out, exaggerate, feature, hold up, set off), framdriva (impel, propel), enträget uppmana, drift (administration, banter, chaff, drift, drifting, drive, impulsion, instinct, jest, jesting, joking, Josh, leg pull, management, operation, persiflage, running, service, traffic, working), betona (accent, accentuate, accentutate, emphasize, give emphasis to, put emphasis on, stress, underline). (various references)

Turkish

zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impel, impose, impress, lean upon, obligate, outrage, press, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, stampede, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, worry, wrest), zorlama (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, enforcement, force, impellent, pressure, push, screw, strain, violence), teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up), sevketmek (carry, consign, dispatch, forward, guide, propel, quarterback, refer, route, send), sevk etmek (consign, dispatch, forward, route, send), sıkıştırmek, kışkırtma (agitation, agitprop, fomentation, incitation, incitement, instigation, prod, provocation, pyrotechnics, sedition, solicitation), istek (adjuration, alacrity, appetite, aspiration, avidity, bent, claim, demand, desire, device, devoutness, disposition, earnestness, enthusiasm, grace, hunger, instance, intentness, mind, pleasure, propensity, readiness, relish, request, requirement, requisition, stomach, studiousness, suit, want, will, wish, zeal), ileri sürmek (adduce, advance, affirm, allege, assert, bring about, broach, come up with, contend, drive on, enunciate, hold forth, interpose, lay, prefer, present, press home, pronounce, propose, propound, publish, put forth, put forward, set forward, set up, throw out, weigh in with), dürtü (challenge, compulsion, drive, ginger, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, motivation, motive, spur, stimulation), baskı yapmak (bear against, coerce, constrain, constrict, force, impress, keep down, lean on, oppress, press, press for, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, pressurize, push, put leverage on smb., put the bite on smb., sit upon, squeeze, stress, subdue, tyrannize, urge against, use force), arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen), ısrarla tavsiye etmek, ısrar etmek (be urgent about smth., claim, crowd, hang on, hold out, insist, persist, stand on, stand out for, stand upon, stick to it, support). (various references)

Turkmen 

haяdatmak (drive, hurry up). (various references)

Ukrainian

спонукати (abet, actuate, cause, excite, impel, impulse, induce, motivate, motive, prick, prod, prompt, provoke, push on, rouse, set off, spur), спонука (impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, motion, motivation, motive, oestrus, persuasive, provocation), примушувати (bring, cause, coerce, compel, concuss, constrain, enforce, force, oblige, squeeze, will), переконувати (admonish, argue, assure, bring, certify, convince, expostulate, reason, satisfy, talk over). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thúc đẩy (actuation, advancement, motivation), sự thôi thúc. (various references)

Welsh

cymell (actuate, induce, persuade, press), argymell (recommend), annog (advise, exhort, incite). (various references)

Zulu

-phuthuma (hurry, press), -jahe (hurry, press). (various references)

acta, actu, actum, acturi, acturum, acturus, actus, agam, agamus, agant, agantur, agar, agarenos, agareos, agas, agat, agatis, agatur, age, agebant, agebat, agebatur, agendo, agendum, agens, agent, agente, agentes, agentibus, agentis, agentium, agere, agerent, agerentur, ageret, ageretur, ages, aget, agetis, agi, agimus, agis, agit, agite, agitur, ago, agunt, aguntur, concitant, concitantem, concitantur, concitasti, concitat, concitata, concitate, concitati, concitatus, concitaverit, concitaverunt, concitavit, concitetur, concito, egerant, egerat, egere, egerim, egerimus, egerint, egeris, egerit, egeritis, egerunt, egeruntque, egi, egimus, egissent, egisset, egisti, egistis, egit, hortabatur, hortare, hortaretur, hortati, hortatus, hortatusque, insisto, instigo, intemptator, perurguebant, perurguebat, perurguente, perurguere, suade, suadeamus, suadebant, suadebat, suadebimus, suademus, suadendum, suadens, suadensque, suadeo, suadere, suades, suadibilis, suaserunt, suasi, suasisset, suasit, suasuram, tempta, temptabant, temptabat, temptabatur, temptabis, temptabit, temptabo, temptans, temptant, temptantes, temptantur, temptare, temptaret, temptaretur, temptari, temptasti, temptat, temptate, temptati, temptatis, temptator, temptatum, temptatur, temptatus, temptaverit, temptavero, temptaverunt, temptavi, temptavimus, temptavit, temptem, temptemini, temptemus, temptor, urgeat, urgeo, urgere, urget, urguebant, urguebantque, urguebat, urguerent, urgueret, urgues, ursi. (various references)

ish. (various references)

gemanian, manian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "urge": urged, urgencies, urgency, urgent, urgently, urger, urgers, urges. (additional references)

Words ending with "urge": demiurge, dramaturge, gurge, overurge, purge, resurge, scourge, splurge, spurge, surge, thaumaturge, upsurge. (additional references)

Words containing "urge": antibourgeois, assurgent, bourgeois, bourgeoise, bourgeoises, bourgeoisie, bourgeoisies, bourgeoisification, bourgeoisifications, bourgeoisified, bourgeoisifies, bourgeoisify, bourgeoisifying, bourgeon, bourgeoned, bourgeoning, bourgeons, burgee, burgees, burgeon, burgeoned, burgeoning, burgeons, burger, burgers, burgess, burgesses, cheeseburger, cheeseburgers, chemosurgeries, chemosurgery, chirurgeon, chirurgeons, counterinsurgencies, counterinsurgency, counterinsurgent, counterinsurgents, courgette, courgettes, cryosurgeon, cryosurgeons, cryosurgeries, cryosurgery, demiurges, dramaturges, electrosurgeries, electrosurgery, embourgeoisement, embourgeoisements, gurged, gurges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Urge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Areg, arge, durge, ereg, erge, Eurgah, ireg, lurge, lurgee, Lurgi, murge, murgi, Murgu, Nuraghe, Nureg, nurge, oreg, Orge, Ruegg, rugbe, Ruge, rugen, ruger, rughe, rugle, rugo, Uga, Ugb, uge, ugea, Uget, ugey, Ugi, ugo, ugr, ugry, Ugte, Unrg, Uogl, urage, urbe, urde, urel, urem, urg, urga, urgel, urgey, urle, urne, urre, Urug, vurge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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