Definition of urge

"urge" in the noun sense

1. urge, impulse

an instinctive motive

"profound religious impulses"

2. urge, itch

a strong restless desire

"why this urge to travel?"

"urge" in the verb sense

1. urge, urge on, press, exhort

force or impel in an indicated direction

"I urged him to finish his studies"

2. recommend, urge, advocate

push for something

"The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"

3. cheer, root on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up

spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

"The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"

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Quotations for urge

Two principles in human nature reign--
Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. [ Pope ]

Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was. [ William Shakespeare ]

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. [ Tuckerman ]

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain. [ Johnson ]

Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

urge in Scrabble®

The word urge is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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urge in Words With Friends™

The word urge is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence urge

Words that start with urge (8 words)

Words with urge in them (144 words)

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