urge
urge Lexical Profile
urge Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To try earnestly or persistently to persuade someone to do something.
"Public health officials continue to urge residents to stay hydrated during the heatwave."
To recommend or advocate strongly for a particular action, policy, or quality.
"The committee urged caution before committing additional funds to the unverified project."
To drive, prod, or hasten someone or an animal onward.
"The rider gently urged her horse forward along the narrow mountain trail."
• noun
A strong, sudden, and often involuntary desire or impulse to do something.
"During the quiet lecture, he had to resist the sudden urge to laugh."
• Rhymes for urge
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-16th century from the Latin verb 'urgere', meaning 'to press hard, push, or drive forward,' from the Proto-Indo-European root '*wreg-' ('to push, shove, or drive').