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urge

verb

/ɜːrdʒ/

Meaning

to strongly encourage or try to persuade someone to do something

Doctors urge patients to exercise regularly.

urge on

encourage, persuade, push, prompt, exhort

dissuade, discourage, prevent

urge someone, urge action, urge caution, strong urge

to send or pass something from one place or person to another

to officially assign, appoint, or indicate something or someone

to scrape or wear away the surface by friction or erosion

to fix something firmly into a surrounding mass or context

to give a title or designation to someone or something

To shine with a soft, wavering light.