urge

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Only I didn't, even though the urge was almost impossible to resist.

View all »
Definitions (29)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (10)

  1. transitive verb To force or drive forward or onward; impel.
  2. transitive verb To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.
  3. transitive verb To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for: urge passage of the bill; a speech urging moderation.
7 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (12)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

More examples »
 

Tags

urge hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 144 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

impulse ·  crave ·  compulsion ·  hunger ·  yearn ·  inclination ·  temptation ·  attraction ·  anxiety ·  regret ·  ache ·  desire

Used in the same contextWord Family

urge:   urged ·  urging ·  urges
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin urgēre.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Latin urgere, press, push, force, drive, urge; perhaps akin to vergere, bend, turn, and Greek εῐργειν (*Νειργειν), repress, constrain, εἱργν/υναι, shut in, Sanskrit √ varj, wrench. Cf. verge and wrick, wreak.
  2. from urge, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ərdʒ/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a week.

Recently looked up

unlevel · field · entrepreneur · basta · argue

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich