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US
/ˈɝdʒɪŋ/
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[ UK /ˈɜːdʒɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɜːdʒɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves - the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging
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insistent solicitation and entreaty
his importunity left me no alternative but to agree
How To Use urging In A Sentence
- The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
- Police are again urging householders to secure their property after a theft from a house in Kirkwall.
- Urging fellow MPs to buy ozone-friendly products, she said failure to do so would leave the world without an ozone layer. ANC Daily News Briefing
- US Treasury markets capitalized on the equity plunge, surging during the afternoon session.
- Still, the SNP are understandably cock-a-hoop and, again unsurprisingly, SNP bloggers are urging the party on to 2010 and their plans for an independence referendum. The View from the North
- Energy is more readily conveyed to the various parts of the smaller mass, and hence the lesser organisms will more actively functionate; and this, as being the urging dynamic attitude, as well as that most generally favourable in the struggle, will multiply and favour such forms of life. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
- Even Christian clergy - keep urging him to do more for the Jews.
- Feel its vital life force surging through your system, obliterating anger and irritation, radiating peace outwards from your heart.
- Meanwhile, the fleet footed and well connected have profited from surging exports, a bubbly urban real estate market and, occasionally, government boosterism.
- As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment.