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[ UK /ˈɜːd‍ʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈɝdʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an instinctive motive
    profound religious impulses
  2. a strong restless desire
    why this urge to travel?
VERB
  1. push for something
    The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day
  2. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
    The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
  3. 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
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