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UK
/ˈɜːdʒ/
]
[ US /ˈɝdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈɝdʒ/ ]
NOUN
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an instinctive motive
profound religious impulses -
a strong restless desire
why this urge to travel?
VERB
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push for something
The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day -
spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers -
force or impel in an indicated direction
I urged him to finish his studies
How To Use urge In A Sentence
- I have a patient who had major abdominal surgery a few years ago for a fulminant illness.
- Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
- Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
- Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
- Companies need to be able to handle surges, otherwise the cost of generating leads is wasted and prospective customers who cannot get through may get such a bad impression of the company that they do not bother calling back.
- The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name. Times, Sunday Times
- Remember that even if your surgery is performed in an office or surgicenter, your surgeon should have hospital privileges to perform that procedure. You: On a Diet
- Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet. Times, Sunday Times
- The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
- Washington, who believed liquor a particular scourge among blacks, sent felicitations. LAST CALL