Urge
verb
To strongly advise or try to persuade someone to do a particular thing.
The doctor urged me to lose weight for the sake of my health.
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- urge someone to
- urge caution
noun
A strong wish or need to do something.
I felt an urge to jump into the lake, even though it was cold.
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- have an urge
- feel an urge
verb
To move or push someone or something in a particular direction gently or forcefully.
The police had to urge the crowd back to keep them safe.
Often appears as...
- urge forward
- urge back
verb
To strongly advise or try to persuade someone to do a particular thing.
The doctor urged me to lose weight for the sake of my health.
Often appears as...
- urge someone to
- urge caution
noun
A strong wish or need to do something.
I felt an urge to jump into the lake, even though it was cold.
Often appears as...
- have an urge
- feel an urge
verb
To move or push someone or something in a particular direction gently or forcefully.
The police had to urge the crowd back to keep them safe.
Often appears as...
- urge forward
- urge back
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Advice
Use 'urge' to express strong recommendations, often more forceful than a simple suggestion.
The council urged residents to evacuate before the hurricane.
Pro Tip 2/3Persuasive Tone
The word 'urge' conveys a sense of urgency and importance when advising someone.
Environmentalists urge the public to reduce plastic waste.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
'Urge' is often used in formal or professional contexts, such as health or safety advice.
Officials urge citizens to follow the new regulations.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Advice
Use 'urge' to express strong recommendations, often more forceful than a simple suggestion.
The council urged residents to evacuate before the hurricane.
Pro Tip 2/3Persuasive Tone
The word 'urge' conveys a sense of urgency and importance when advising someone.
Environmentalists urge the public to reduce plastic waste.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
'Urge' is often used in formal or professional contexts, such as health or safety advice.
Officials urge citizens to follow the new regulations.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Advice
Use 'urge' to express strong recommendations, often more forceful than a simple suggestion.
The council urged residents to evacuate before the hurricane.
Pro Tip 2/3Persuasive Tone
The word 'urge' conveys a sense of urgency and importance when advising someone.
Environmentalists urge the public to reduce plastic waste.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
'Urge' is often used in formal or professional contexts, such as health or safety advice.
Officials urge citizens to follow the new regulations.
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Bring on the learning...
provide an opportunity to revolutionize education. And I urge you to get involved in it because it's vital, not just to ourselves, but to the future of our children. But we have to change from the industrial model to an agricultural model, where each school can be flourishing tomorrow. That's where children experience life.
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A brief history of...
This is done in order to avoid idolatry, or confusion between the representation of divinity and divinity itself. Keeping it real, so to speak, in the relationship between the individual and the divine. However, this can be a challenge to maintain, given that the urge to visually represent and interpret the world around us
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Watch the Total Solar...
then how they are at night but actually beyond that things like time change things like your mass changes and your size change too and you know and I know this because when I was in space I urged seven milliseconds less than everybody else on earth yes I'm younger than I would have otherwise been you might have
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A simple way to break a...
So we can help them tap into their inherent capacity to be curiously aware right when that urge to smoke or stress eat or whatever arises. So if you don't smoke or stress eat, maybe the next time you feel this urge to check your email when you're bored, or you're trying to distract yourself from work,
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How to fix a broken...
You have to recognize that, as compelling as the urge is, with every trip down memory lane, every text you send, every second you spend stalking your ex on social media, you are just feeding your addiction, deepening your emotional pain and complicating your recovery.
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Thoughts on humanity,...
for grace and compassion. I've learned that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, to build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest and the simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love.
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How to practice...
you are actually putting yourself at significant risk for developing clinical depression, alcoholism, eating disorders, and even cardiovascular disease. The problem is, the urge to ruminate can feel really strong and really important,
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What "Orwellian" really...
forming the basis of society from the most common, everyday interactions to the highest ideals. Orwell urged us to protect our language because ultimately our ability to think and communicate clearly
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The psychological weight...
so thank you very much so if any of you have a health issue that you need to deal with or a life change you need to deal with i urge you to imagine your healthy
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Baby Penguin Escapes...
there's nothing he can do for these lone females the urge to nurture a chick of their own is overwhelming
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Bring on the learning...
provide an opportunity to revolutionize education. And I urge you to get involved in it because it's vital, not just to ourselves, but to the future of our children. But we have to change from the industrial model to an agricultural model, where each school can be flourishing tomorrow. That's where children experience life.
Video examples
A brief history of...
This is done in order to avoid idolatry, or confusion between the representation of divinity and divinity itself. Keeping it real, so to speak, in the relationship between the individual and the divine. However, this can be a challenge to maintain, given that the urge to visually represent and interpret the world around us
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
then how they are at night but actually beyond that things like time change things like your mass changes and your size change too and you know and I know this because when I was in space I urged seven milliseconds less than everybody else on earth yes I'm younger than I would have otherwise been you might have
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A simple way to break a...
So we can help them tap into their inherent capacity to be curiously aware right when that urge to smoke or stress eat or whatever arises. So if you don't smoke or stress eat, maybe the next time you feel this urge to check your email when you're bored, or you're trying to distract yourself from work,
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How to fix a broken...
You have to recognize that, as compelling as the urge is, with every trip down memory lane, every text you send, every second you spend stalking your ex on social media, you are just feeding your addiction, deepening your emotional pain and complicating your recovery.
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Thoughts on humanity,...
for grace and compassion. I've learned that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, to build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest and the simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love.
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How to practice...
you are actually putting yourself at significant risk for developing clinical depression, alcoholism, eating disorders, and even cardiovascular disease. The problem is, the urge to ruminate can feel really strong and really important,
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What "Orwellian" really...
forming the basis of society from the most common, everyday interactions to the highest ideals. Orwell urged us to protect our language because ultimately our ability to think and communicate clearly
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The psychological weight...
so thank you very much so if any of you have a health issue that you need to deal with or a life change you need to deal with i urge you to imagine your healthy
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Baby Penguin Escapes...
there's nothing he can do for these lone females the urge to nurture a chick of their own is overwhelming
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Gabrielle Union
American Actress
Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.
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Henry L. Stimson
American Statesman
I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.
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Georgia Holt
American Musician
People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create.
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Jen Kirkman
American Comedian
The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.
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Ian Hacking
Canadian Philosopher
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Jim Davis
American Cartoonist
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Finty Williams
English Actress
I adore tattoos. They're not painful; you just get an urge to swear a lot.
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Michael Caputo
American Public Servant
I urge my critics to get passports and see the world.
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Antonio Munoz Molina
Spanish Writer
I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.
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Gabrielle Union
American Actress
Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.
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Henry L. Stimson
American Statesman
I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.
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Georgia Holt
American Musician
People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create.
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Jen Kirkman
American Comedian
The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.
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Ian Hacking
Canadian Philosopher
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Jim Davis
American Cartoonist
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Finty Williams
English Actress
I adore tattoos. They're not painful; you just get an urge to swear a lot.
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Michael Caputo
American Public Servant
I urge my critics to get passports and see the world.
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Antonio Munoz Molina
Spanish Writer
I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.
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