Dictionary Definition
urge
Noun
1 an instinctive motive; "profound religious
impulses" [syn: impulse]
2 a strong restless desire; "why this urge to
travel?" [syn: itch]
Verb
1 force or impel in an indicated direction; "I
urged him to finish his studies" [syn: urge on, press, exhort]
2 push for something; "The travel agent
recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn:
recommend, advocate]
3 urge on or encourage especially by shouts; "The
crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: cheer, inspire, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒ
Translations
a strong desire; an itch to do something
- Finnish: halu, hinku, vietti
- French: pulsion
- German: Drang
- Italian: pulsione
- Japanese: 願望
- Norwegian: trang
Verb
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- : To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
- To press onward or forward.
- To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
Related terms
Translations
to press, push, drive
- Finnish: ajaa
- Hungarian: sürgetni
- Japanese: 催促する
to press the mind or will of
- Finnish: painostaa
- Greek: παροτρύνω, παρακινώ, ωθώ
- Hungarian: ösztönözni
- Japanese: せきたてる
to provoke
- Finnish: raivostuttaa
to present in an urgent manner
- Finnish: kiirehtiä
- Japanese: せきたてる
(obsolete) to treat with forcible means
to press onward or forward
- Finnish: ajaa
to be pressing in argument; to insist
- Finnish: vaatia
- Japanese: 催促する
- ttbc Arabic: (ħáθθa)
- ttbc Chinese: 催促 (cuīcù)
- ttbc Dutch: aansporen
- ttbc French: presser
- ttbc German: drängen (1,2,4), antreiben (1)
- ttbc Italian: esortare
- ttbc Korean: 재촉하다 (jaechoghada)
- ttbc Old English: manian (1,2,3,4)
- ttbc Portuguese: apressar
- ttbc Russian: подгонять (podgonját’)
- ttbc Spanish: urgir
- ttbc Swedish: uppmana
See also
French
Verb
urge- Form of Third-person singular present tense, urger
Italian
Verb
urge- Form of Third-person singular present tense, urgere
Extensive Definition
Urge means a strong desire. Urge may also refer
to:
- Sucking urge, an infant's instinctive urge to breastfeed
- urge, drive forward, to make move faster
- Nissan Urge, a concept car announced by Nissan that will be integrated with the Xbox video game console
- URGE (digital music service), an online music service (now defunct) released on May 17, 2006 - a collaboration between MTV and Microsoft
- Urge (soft drink), a citrus soft drink produced in Norway, equivalent of Surge
Entertainment
- Good God's Urge (1996), the second and final album by Porno for Pyros
- The Primal Urge, a 1961 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss
- The Outward Urge (1959), a science fiction novel by John Wyndham
- The
Sinister Urge, disambiguation page
- The Sinister Urge (album) (2001), the second solo album by the former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie
- The Sinister Urge (film), a 1961 crime drama film that was written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr.
- The Urge (1987-2005), St. Louis, Missouri, USA Rock/Ska band
- Urge (Wildhearts), the second and last single released from Endless Nameless album by The Wildhearts
- Urge Overkill, an alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, United States
- A pop band from Coventry, UK.
urge in Dutch: Urge
urge in Volapük: Urge
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accelerate, admonish, advise, advocate, affirm, allege, appetite, appetition, apply pressure,
ardor, argue, ask, assert, automatic response,
beg, beseech, beset, besiege, blandish, blind impulse, brain
wave, brainstorm,
brook no denial, bug,
bundle, bustle, buttonhole, cajole, call on, call upon,
caution, charge, cheer on, coax, compulsion, concupiscence, constrain, constraint, contend, counsel, craving, crowd, curiosity, demand, desideration, desire, dispatch, drive, drive on, dun, eagerness, egg on, encourage, enjoin, entreat, exert pressure,
exhort, exigency, expedite, expostulate, fancy, fantasy, flash, fleeting impulse, force, forward, goad, goad on, gut response,
haste, hasten, hasten on, hie on,
high-pressure, hold,
hope, horme, hound on, hunger, hurry, hurry along, hurry on,
hurry up, hustle, hustle
up, impel, impetus, importune, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incite, induce, influence, insist, insist on, insist upon,
inspiration,
instinct, intellectual
curiosity, involuntary impulse, issue a caveat, itch, jawbone, libido, lobby, longing, lust, lust for learning, maintain, mind, motive, move, nag, nag at, natural impulse,
need, needle, notion, passion, persist, persuade, pester, pinch, plague, plead with, pleasure, pleasure principle,
ply, preach, precipitate, press, pressure, prevail upon,
prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, push, push on, push through, quick
hunch, quicken, railroad
through, rash impulse, recommend, reflex, remonstrate, request, root on, rush, rush along, set forth, set
on, sexual desire, shove,
sic, soft-soap, solicit, speed, speed along, speed on,
speed up, spring,
spur, spur on, stampede, stand on, state, stick to, stress, sudden thought, suggest, sway, sweet-talk, take no denial,
talk into, tease, thirst, thirst for knowledge,
urge on, urgency,
want, wanting, warn, wheedle, whip, whip along, whip on, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, work on,
yearning, yen