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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
urge
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
irresistible urge
▪ I was overcome by an irresistible urge to cry.
resist the urge/impulse to do sth
▪ Bob resisted the urge to touch her hand.
satisfy an urge
▪ Her urge to travel had never been satisfied.
stifled...urge
▪ He stifled an urge to hit her.
urge caution
▪ Scientists are urging caution in research involving genes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
strongly
▪ The Parish council would, therefore, strongly urge your committee to refuse this application.
▪ They strongly urge the assorted presidents, prime ministers and corporate chieftains to come without their staffs and guards.
▪ All building society investors and financial advisers are strongly urged to check that they are getting the best rates available.
▪ The establishment of a national asylum had been strongly urged by sundry persons and medical societies since the late 1880s.
▪ The Starsearch returns to Derry in a few weeks, and those who missed out on this occasion are strongly urged to re-enter.
▪ I strongly urge you to just gently dress the pasta with the sauce.
▪ And I strongly urge them to send the tasty Kirstie to Mr Lovegrove's corner shop to get their rations.
▪ I strongly urge him to do so, if he can reach a sensible and reasonable compromise.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ Friends of the Earth is urging local authorities to use the new laws as a means of prosecuting polluting dump sites.
▪ She urged health authorities to carry out urgent research into the problem.
campaign
▪ Neither initiative had formal opposition campaigns, but both urged voters to not support the other.
▪ Janet started a mailing and telephone campaign urging members of our chapter who could to get themselves up there for the vote.
▪ He also initiated a staunch campaign urging retractions.
committee
▪ Other central committee members urged the party to speed up its own reform and to anticipate the changes happening in the country.
▪ The committee urged a ban on cameras, expressed in a recommendation that came to be known as Canon 35.
▪ That cross-party committee urged a multi-million pound subsidy and other measures to save half of the pits earmarked for closure last October.
▪ Cashman's report to the Citizens Rights Committee urged unprecedented access to official papers.
council
▪ He says it could cost some pensioners as much as £25 a week and is urging the council to think again.
▪ She said she will urge the council to defer action on those sections of the code dealing with wetlands.
▪ Michael Fishwick urged Darlington Council to hold the event.
▪ Instead, Golding urged her council colleagues to put future city building projects costing $ 50 million or more on the ballot.
government
▪ It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site.
▪ In 1994, he was urged by his government to kill.
▪ We urge the Government to do something about this urgently.
▪ It was suggested that we urge government to spend more money on our children, and I do so daily.
▪ I urge the Government to continue to resist the idea of more regulations being attached to employees.
▪ He urged the Government to listen to the representations of the 60,000 people of the Down area seeking a new hospital.
▪ He urged the Government to call in the army to help to incinerate slaughtered animals.
▪ A draft urged governments to tax up the price of tobacco to discourage its use.
member
▪ And the Council of Mortgage Lenders urged all members to consider following suit.
▪ Janet started a mailing and telephone campaign urging members of our chapter who could to get themselves up there for the vote.
▪ He urged members of the public to contact the council if there were any ugly advertising boards they wanted removed.
▪ As I constantly urge members - your signature is your most precious possession.
▪ He urged members to go to their Divisions and put forward more prospective tutors.
▪ Now the Darlington Association on Disability has urged members to monitor the effects of the ban.
parent
▪ Seat makers Klippan urged parents who have bought the seats since November 1 to contact the company.
▪ We urge parents to plan ahead for postpartum home help.
▪ He urged parents and churches to join a crusade against crime.
▪ She asked for identification and we'd urge all parents to do the same.
party
▪ Other central committee members urged the party to speed up its own reform and to anticipate the changes happening in the country.
▪ He urged state party leaders to work hard to win back Congress for the Democrats.
▪ Feigning fatigue, we urge a baffled party to evacuate before the witching hour.
president
▪ Top people in the White House urged the President to cancel the manned programme.
▪ They strongly urge the assorted presidents, prime ministers and corporate chieftains to come without their staffs and guards.
▪ Johnson urged the President to continue.
▪ That was a particularly black day for those of us who had urged the President to take on the Chief at Interior.
▪ On the basis of this analysis of the problem, I urged the President to stay strong in dealing with Gorbachev.
report
▪ The Royal College's report urges families to become involved, but this conflicts with the client's right to confidentiality.
▪ As a starter the Gaither Report urged an increase in defense spending to $ 48 billion.
▪ The report urges the Bank to co-operate with other organizations to build an agenda for sustainable exploitation of rainforest reserves.
▪ According to sources, the report urges paramilitary groups to commit themselves to exclusively democratic means and to total disarmament.
▪ The report urges greater coherence in research planning and co-ordination between the various funders.
▪ Dealing: The report urges much tougher sanctions on the suppliers of all illegal drugs.
▪ The report urges consumers to start demanding value for money, but music lovers are sceptical about what they can achieve.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
animal urges/instincts etc
compelling need/desire/urge (to do sth)
▪ And it was from these experiments that Work place 2000 emerged as the response to a compelling need for change.
▪ Most women with bulimia, particularly those with a history of anorexia, have a compelling desire to be thinner.
▪ Such freedoms can be abridged only if the state shows it has a compelling need to do so.
▪ Suddenly I had a compelling urge to look at Wilkerson.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He gave copies of the report to all those present at the meeting, urging that they read and digest its contents.
▪ Herrera urged patience in the negotiations.
▪ Police are urging drivers not to come into London this weekend.
▪ The company's bosses are urging full cooperation with the trade union.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He urged newspapers not to identify criminals by religion.
▪ It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site.
▪ Lori dominated the table and Travis urged her on with a few well-chosen words.
▪ She had urged me to go out on my own, to start my own company.
▪ They urge their students to see the parallels between the lives they are studying and their own.
▪ This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease.
▪ What induced them to do this is not known, but Creon urged it and Oedipus' sons consented to it.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
irresistible
▪ As soon as they sit down and relax again, this irresistible urge returns.
▪ By concentrating only on the sound, I lost the irresistible urge to hit the ball hard.
▪ Or perhaps they felt an irresistible urge to act as Guardians of Truth.
overwhelming
▪ First, an overwhelming urge to find a market researcher and kick him or her hard on a soft target area.
▪ I can cheerfully admit that it made no impact on me apart from an overwhelming urge to be violently sick.
▪ Their high-kitsch varnish was offset by an overwhelming urge to educate.
strong
▪ A strong creative urge led him to experiment with collage, which he finds deeply satisfying.
▪ Yet this notion was conquered by a stronger urge I could not deny.
sudden
▪ If you have a sudden urge to do something - as long as it can not harm you or others - act on it!
▪ She fought back the sudden urge to run to him, to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness.
▪ I have a sudden urge to touch her, to hold her, to tell her I know how she feels.
■ VERB
control
▪ But I learnt to control my baser urges a long time ago.
▪ Try to control the urge to scratch.
▪ We must be careful in controlling our natural urges to defy musical interpreters.
feel
▪ Not that any Ewing ever seemed to feel the urge.
▪ He felt the urge to apologize, then subdued it.
▪ She felt a hot urge to strangle the child, but controlled herself.
▪ Even Brahmins can do self destructive things, feel unsavory urges.
▪ But I feel full of urges.
▪ You too might feel the urge to plow up the back yard and plant white Rhone varietals.
▪ For once he felt no urge to share his knowledge with her.
▪ We become drowsy and feel a keen urge to sleep.
fight
▪ She fought the futile urge to draw breath.
▪ He fought the urge to jump out of the wagon and run toward them.
▪ Willie fought back the urge to leave, to scramble back up the embankment and join his mates as if nothing had happened.
▪ She fought back the sudden urge to run to him, to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness.
▪ I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach.
▪ Donaldson fought the urge to put his tongue out.
▪ Dauntless himself was fighting an urge to doze.
▪ She fought against the urge to bunch her left hand into a fist.
get
▪ Do teenagers whose talents have been recognised at school get the urge to smash up the premises?
▪ I get the urge to move, now and then.
▪ Cosmopolitans have more sophisticated tastes these days, but we still get an urge for spaghetti.
▪ When I get like that, I get my urge to shout.
resist
▪ You resist the urge to test the weight on the lid again, because by now you've forgotten how it felt before.
▪ Corrigan resisted the urge to grab him by the arm and hold him.
▪ Will we as lawyers use our privileged positions to extend our influence, or resist the urge to make ourselves indispensable?
▪ But she resisted the urge to turn and glance at him and kept her eyes fixed straight ahead.
▪ Yanto resisted the urge to rush things.
▪ Bernice could hardly resist the urge to turn and run, but she supported Defries and retreated step by step.
▪ With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation.
stifle
▪ She stifled an urge to brain her son with it, and instead placed it in the sink.
▪ Jody stifles the urge to call a time-out and berate them.
▪ Billy stifled the urge to laugh out loud.
▪ But such policies could not stifle all urges to freedom.
suppress
▪ A bitter reply rose to Alexei's lips, but he suppressed the urge to utter it.
▪ I had to suppress the urge to jump down, run after them and argue some sense into them.
▪ He suppressed the urge to respond, to tease an answer to the question out of himself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was fighting the urge to drink as he waited for her to come down.
▪ I felt a sudden urge to tell him all my problems.
▪ sexual urges
▪ She was seized with the urge to drag Alice from her chair and shake her.
▪ Sheena resisted the urge to get in her car and go home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bedford felt the urge to have a go but suppressed it.
▪ Behavioral modification is often used for women with urge incontinence.
▪ But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.
▪ If you have the same urge for desert places - go now.
▪ More crudely, they are written off as a rampaging mob, victim to primitive urges or the machinations of conspirators.
▪ Most individuals experience the urge to defecate on morning awakening and after meals, when colonic motility is known to peak.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Urge

Urge \Urge\, v. i.

  1. To press onward or forward. [R.]

  2. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Urge

Urge \Urge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Urged; p. pr. & vb. n. Urging.] [L. urgere; akin to E. wreak. See Wreak, v. t.]

  1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

    Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight.
    --Pope.

  2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

    My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
    --Shak.

  3. To provoke; to exasperate. [R.]

    Urge not my father's anger.
    --Shak.

  4. To press hard upon; to follow closely

    Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
    --Pope.

  5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.

  6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

    Syn: To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate; encourage.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
urge

1550s, from Latin urgere "to press hard, push forward, force, drive, compel, stimulate," from PIE root *wreg- "to push, shove, drive" (cognates: Lithuanian verziu "tie, fasten, squeeze," vargas "need, distress," vergas "slave;" Old Church Slavonic vragu "enemy;" Gothic wrikan "persecute," Old English wrecan "drive, hunt, pursue"). Related: Urged; urging.

urge

1610s, "act of urging," from urge (v.). Marked as "rare" in Century Dictionary (1902); "in frequent use from c.1910" [OED].

Wiktionary
urge

n. A strong desire; an itch to do something. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. 2 (context transitive English) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuade, or importunity. 3 (context transitive English) To provoke; to exasperate. 4 (context transitive English) To press hard upon; to follow closely. 5 (context transitive English) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon. 6 (context transitive obsolete English) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with. 7 (context transitive English) To press onward or forward. 8 (context transitive English) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

WordNet
urge
  1. v. 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]

urge
  1. n. an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses" [syn: impulse]

  2. a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?" [syn: itch]

Wikipedia
Urge

Urge means a strong desire. Urge may also refer to:

  • Sucking urge, an infant's instinctive urge to breastfeed
  • urge, drive forward, to make something move faster
  • Nissan Urge, a concept car announced by Nissan that will be integrated with the Xbox video game console
  • URGE (digital music service), a defunct online music service released on May 17, 2006 - a collaboration between MTV and Microsoft
  • Urge (soft drink), a citrus soft drink produced in Norway, equivalent of Surge
Urge (song)

"Urge" is the second single from the album Endless Nameless by The Wildhearts. The single was released in three different formats featuring different B-sides. Former guitarist Devin Townsend sings backing vocals on the CD1 B-side "Kill Me To Death". "Genius Penis" was written by drummer Ritch Battersby and features guest vocals by Vickie Perks from Fuzzbox.

CD1:

1. Urge
2. Fugazi (Do The Fake)
3. Kill Me To Death

CD2:

1. Urge
2. Zomboid
3. Genius Penis

7":

A. Urge
B. Lost Highway

Released: October 1997 · Label: Mushroom Records · UK Chart: No. 26 Formats: CD1 (MUSH14CD), CD2 (MUSH14CDX), 7" Vinyl (MUSH14S)

Category:The Wildhearts songs Category:1997 songs

Urge (film)

Urge is a 2016 American thriller film directed by Aaron Kaufman and written by Jerry Stahl. The film stars Justin Chatwin, Ashley Greene, Alexis Knapp, Bar Paly, Chris Geere, Nick Thune, Kea Ho, Danny Masterson, and Pierce Brosnan. The film was released on June 3, 2016, in a limited release and through video on demand by Lionsgate Premiere.

Urge (album)

Urge is an album by American trumpeter Ted Curson which was recorded in the Netherlands and first released on the Dutch Fontana label in 1966.

URGE (digital music service)

The URGE digital music store was an online music distribution service run by MTV Networks. URGE was integrated into Windows Media Player 11.

URGE was opened on May 17, 2006. Downloaded files came with restrictions on their use, enforced by Windows Media DRM, Microsoft's digital rights management. URGE featured the music programming of MTV, CMT, and VH1 and provided editorial content for the online music service. URGE charged 99¢ a track, or $9.95/month for a subscription. An optional $14.95/month to-go subscription was available for those with PlaysForSure devices. As of May 2008, URGE was not compatible with Microsoft's Zune or Apple's iPod, although the first-generation Zune Marketplace was based on URGE, and had many similarities.

In the spring of 2007, MTV Networks launched the digital audio radio service URGE Radio, available through cable operators. URGE Radio offered cable systems digital audio channels with continuous music commercial-free, 24 hours a day. Similar to Music Choice, song and artist info is displayed on screen.

In August 2007, MTV Networks announced plans to end its partnership with Microsoft and join RealNetworks on its Rhapsody digital music store.

In September 2010, Verizon and Frontier informed their customers that they would be dropping the URGE channels due to the provider's decision to discontinue the service. At present, www.urge.com redirects users to the Website for Viacom, Inc., the parent company of MTV Networks.

Urge (soft drink)

Urge is a citrus flavored soft drink produced by Coca-Cola Norway that was first introduced in Norway in 1996, and later in Denmark and Sweden. It is the predecessor of the American soft drink Surge, which was introduced in the USA in 1997. Urge was discontinued in Denmark and Sweden in 2001. In Norway, Urge sales increased greatly over the years reaching a market share near 10% despite receiving no marketing since its initial launch.

Urge was available in Norway in 0.5 L and 1.5 L bottles, and later also in 0.33 L cans, but in Q1 of 1999 the 1.5 L bottles were taken off the market due to unsatisfactory sales. The cans also vanished from the market a few years later, leaving only the 0.5 L bottles. however, Urge 1.5 L bottles were relaunched to the Norwegian market on September 1, 2008. The relaunch is credited to a massive campaign by the consumers on the internet community Facebook. It has a sugar content of 68 grams per 0.5 L bottle.

Usage examples of "urge".

Weavers travelled from town to village to city, appearing at festivals or gatherings, teaching the common folk to recognise the Aberrant in their midst, urging them to give up the creatures that hid among them.

He urged her back against the closed door and kissed her neck, the bristle from his shaven jaw abrading her and making her skin tingle.

I learned from Dessolles, who, as I have stated, was present at the conference in his rank of commander of the National Guard of Paris, that the Marshals were unanimous in urging Alexander to accede to a Regency.

In the commons Sir Robert Peel threw himself, acrimoniously, and with all his energy, into this controversy, and used all the exploded arguments of the protectionists with the air of one who for the first time urged them upon the house.

You have to recollect, as the Conservative acutely suggests, that her timidities, at present urging her to support Establishments, pertain to her state of dependence.

I urge you not to trust his Adamantine face and his Rhadamantine justice.

And even if they did, when adolescence came, when most people started shifting, would they be able to control their urges to shift?

To prevent such a consummation, in conclusion, he urged the necessity of redressing the grievances, and of adopting some remedy to the deplorable distresses under which the Irish people were groaning.

Urged by the information which Afy thinks she unconsciously obtains from Lachen, and harrowed by the idea that I am about to tear her from England, she has appealed to the Duke in a manner to which they were both unused.

Some individuals urged that the reform agenda be pushed more vigorously at the local level.

Danlo his love of ahimsa, his marvellous will, his deep, vivid eyes was urging the warrior-poet into life.

Erik waved good-bye to Akee, and turned his horse around as Jimmy urged his back to a walk.

But she saw the veil he had spread over his resentment, and, his assumed tranquillity only alarming her more, she urged, at length, the impolicy of forcing an interview with Montoni, and of taking any measure, which might render their separation irremediable.

Urged by self-preservation, Steve hurled his only weapon, the alumite bust that had served him one good turn.

So much belief, so much authority seemed to have been invested by the builders in these primitive, faceless idols, guardians of the blithe, naked Ama girls, that Bond had a ridiculous urge to kneel and ask for their blessing as the Crusaders had once done before their God.