urge
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
urge/ɜːʤ/
▶verb encourage or entreat earnestly to do something.
■ strongly recommend.
■ encourage to move more quickly.
■ (urge someone on) encourage someone to continue.
▶noun a strong desire or impulse.– derivatives
urging noun.
urging noun.
– origin C16: from L. urgere ‘press, drive’.
'urge' also found in these Oxford entries:
abet
- adjure
- admonish
- cacoethes
- call
- calling
- chop-chop
- come
- compulsion
- compulsive
- drive
- egg
- enjoin
- exhort
- halloo
- impel
- impulse
- impulsion
- incite
- inclination
- inspire
- instigate
- itchy
- kleptomania
- lech
- push
- root
- rowel
- set
- sex drive
- sool
- spur
- stimulate
- suasion
- urgent
- yoicks
