Word Meanings - URGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: URGE

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. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of URGE)

• Accelerate
• Hasten
• urge
• expedite
• quicken
• speed
• urge on
• press forward
• hurry
• promote
• dispatch
• facilitate
• Actuate
• Urge
• instigate
• stir
• induce
• influence
• incline
• dispose
• incite
• impel
• prompt
• drive
• Appeal
• Accost
• address
• apostrophize
• invite
• cite
• invoke
• refer
• call upon
• entreat
• request
• resort
• Enforce
• compel
• require
• exact
• exert
• strain
• Entreat
• Implore
• obsecrate
• beg
• beseech
• importune
• crave
• solicit
• supplicate
• pray
• ask
• petition

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of URGE)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade
• Shun
• discard

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  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
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  One who makes an appeal.
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