Meaning of "urge" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD URGE

From Latin urgēre.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF URGE

urge  [ɜːdʒ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF URGE

Urge is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb urge in English.

WHAT DOES URGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Urge

Urge means a strong desire. Urge may also refer to: ▪ Sucking urge, an infant's instinctive urge to breastfeed ▪ urge, drive forward, to make something move faster ▪ Nissan Urge, a concept car announced by Nissan that will be integrated with the Xbox video game console ▪ URGE, an online music service released on May 17, 2006 - a collaboration between MTV and Microsoft ▪ Urge, a citrus soft drink produced in Norway, equivalent of Surge...

Definition of urge in the English dictionary

The first definition of urge in the dictionary is to plead, press, or move. Other definition of urge is to advocate or recommend earnestly and persistently; plead or insist on. Urge is also to impel, drive, or hasten onwards.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO URGE

PRESENT

Present

I urge

you urge

he/she/it urges

we urge

you urge

they urge

Present continuous

I am urging

you are urging

he/she/it is urging

we are urging

you are urging

they are urging

Present perfect

I have urged

you have urged

he/she/it has urged

we have urged

you have urged

they have urged

Present perfect continuous

I have been urging

you have been urging

he/she/it has been urging

we have been urging

you have been urging

they have been urging

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I urged

you urged

he/she/it urged

we urged

you urged

they urged

Past continuous

I was urging

you were urging

he/she/it was urging

we were urging

you were urging

they were urging

Past perfect

I had urged

you had urged

he/she/it had urged

we had urged

you had urged

they had urged

Past perfect continuous

I had been urging

you had been urging

he/she/it had been urging

we had been urging

you had been urging

they had been urging

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will urge

you will urge

he/she/it will urge

we will urge

you will urge

they will urge

Future continuous

I will be urging

you will be urging

he/she/it will be urging

we will be urging

you will be urging

they will be urging

Future perfect

I will have urged

you will have urged

he/she/it will have urged

we will have urged

you will have urged

they will have urged

Future perfect continuous

I will have been urging

you will have been urging

he/she/it will have been urging

we will have been urging

you will have been urging

they will have been urging

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would urge

you would urge

he/she/it would urge

we would urge

you would urge

they would urge

Conditional continuous

I would be urging

you would be urging

he/she/it would be urging

we would be urging

you would be urging

they would be urging

Conditional perfect

I would have urge

you would have urge

he/she/it would have urge

we would have urge

you would have urge

they would have urge

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been urging

you would have been urging

he/she/it would have been urging

we would have been urging

you would have been urging

they would have been urging

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you urge
we let´s urge
you urge

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to urge

Past participle

urged

Present Participle

urging

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «URGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «urge» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of urge

advise · advocate · appetite · back · beg · beseech · champion · compulsion · counsel · craving · desire · drive · endorse · enjoin · entreat · exhort · fancy · goad · hankering · hunger · implore · impulse · itch · lean on · longing · plead · press · pressurize · prompt · recommend · solicit · suggest · support · thirst · twist someone´s arm · wish · yearning · yen

TRANSLATION OF URGE

Find out the translation of urge to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of urge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «urge» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 敦促
• Translator English - Spanish: insistir
• English: urge
• Translator English - Hindi: आग्रह करता हूं
• Translator English - Arabic: نحث
• Translator English - Russian: призываем
• Translator English - Portuguese: insistir
• Translator English - Bengali: চালনা করা
• Translator English - French: pousser
• Translator English - Malay: Mendesak
• Translator English - German: drängen
• Translator English - Japanese: せきたてる
• Translator English - Korean: 하도록 재촉하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nggusah
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đôn đốc
• Translator English - Tamil: வலியுறுத்துகின்றோம்
• Translator English - Marathi: इच्छाशक्ती
• Translator English - Turkish: dürtü
• Translator English - Italian: fare pressione su
• Translator English - Polish: Zachęcam
• Translator English - Ukrainian: закликаємо
• Translator English - Romanian: îndemn
• Translator English - Greek: προτρέπω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: doen ´n beroep
• Translator English - Swedish: uppmana
• Translator English - Norwegian: oppfordrer

10 QUOTES WITH «URGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word urge.

1

Alan Bennett

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

2

Nate Berkus

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

3

Tim Berners-Lee

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

4

Kathryn Bigelow

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

5

David Bohm

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

6

Ernest Borgnine

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

7

Bill Budge

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

8

Arthur Capper

Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.

9

Confucius

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

10

Kiki Dee

In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had a strong maternal urge, and then I got cancer of the womb - luckily caught at an early stage - so that put paid to that.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «URGE»

Discover the use of urge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to urge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Fighting the Urge

Taint and Alana are in love. But this is no normal love, no, Taint suffers from Depression. Alana deals with Bulimia.

Caleb Ansley, 2012

The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping

The Urge to Splurge also looks at the long history of our conflicted attitudes about shopping. Shopping, it seems, has never mixed well with our higher ideals. It has mixed with just about everything else, though. For instance: tourism.

Laura Byrne Paquet, 2003

The Urge, Volume 2

The URGE is a philosophical tale on progress and anxiety between two men and their women who live in high gear financially and human rights; set in Amsterdam and Bangkok the son of the financier rebels and starts a journey with his ...

Frans Welman

I'll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence

Regardless of their spiritual leanings, all of the subjects discussed in this book (including Public Enemy, Madonna, Sleater-Kinney, Tricky, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Moby, Marvin Gaye, Eminem, Polly Harvey, Bruce Springsteen and Sly & ...

Bill Friskics-Warren, 2006

US Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s

A final section of the book examines the anti-imperialist opposition inspired by the new policy, and the ensuing debates about the proper role of American power.

David Healy, 2011

Revenge: On the Dynamics of a Frightening Urge and its Taming

The authors' aim in this book is to focus on revenge as a neglected and insufficiently understood psychological mechanism in a broad spectrum ranging from the many and varied revenge acts of everyday life to the extreme societal ...

Tomas Bohm, Suzanne Kaplan, 2011

Craving Earth: Understanding Pica--the Urge to Eat Clay, ...

Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical findings, Sera Young creates a portrait of pica, or nonfood cravings, from humans' earliest ingestions to current trends and practices.

Sera L. Young, 2013

Talmud with Training Wheels: Meet the Evil Urge: Sukkah 51b-53b

This volume adds up to a deep understanding of how Judaism understands and recommenrs resisting temptation.

Joel Lurie Grishaver, 2007

General Principles and Empirically Supported Techniques of ...

Of the many barriers to a productive and healthy life that people face, urge control may be one of the most daunting (Baumeister, Heatherton & Tice, 1994). Giving in to temptation, whether it is to drugs, irresponsible spending, or infidelity, can ...

William T. O'Donohue, Jane E. Fisher, 2009

The Primal Urge

How would you like to have a disc set in the middle of your forehead which glowed pink whenever you felt sexually aroused?

Brian Aldiss, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «URGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term urge is used in the context of the following news items.

Gay and Transgender Catholics Urge Pope Francis to Take a Stand

Lui Akira Francesco Matsuo said he was standing in line for communion one Sunday at his Roman Catholic church in Detroit when a fellow parishioner pulled ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and …

Over 1,000 leading experts in artificial intelligence have signed an open letter calling for a ban on military AI development and autonomous weapons, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Ex-diplomats urge ratification of Iran deal

A group of former diplomats sent a letter to Congress on Monday morning, urging members of both chambers not to reject the Obama administration's ... «Politico, Jul 15»

Experts Urge Sparing Use of Nonaspirin Painkillers

The Food and Drug Administration warned last week that the risk of heart attack and stroke from widely used painkillers that include Motrin IB, Aleve and ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

The urge to embrace failure reaches its final frontier

Tom Peters, the motivational management speaker, started urging managers to “embrace failure” in the 1990s, as part of his attempt to get them to shake up ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»

Suspend inspection regime, GPs urge

The inspection regime for GPs in England should be suspended because it is "overly bureaucratic" and "nit-picking", doctors say. Medics at the British Medical ... «BBC News, Jun 15»

Brian Williams Says Fabrications Came From 'Bad Urge Inside of Me'

Brian Williams tried to repair his sullied reputation with the public on Friday during his first interview since being removed as anchor of “Nightly News” on NBC, ... «New York Times, Jun 15»

Markets urge regulators to fix data confusion

In a rare display of unity, banks, futures brokers, hedge funds and asset managers have joined together to urge global regulators to resolve the growing chaos ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»

Sculptor Media Boards Pierce Brosnan, Ashley Greene Drama 'Urge'

“Urge,” currently in post-production, is directed and co-written by Aaron Kaufman and produced by Goz, Gold and Andrew Mann. The film was shot in New York ... «Variety, Jun 15»

Tech Giants Urge Obama to Reject Policies That Weaken Encryption

“We urge you to reject any proposal that U.S. companies deliberately weaken the security of their products,” the letter to President Obama said. “We request that ... «New York Times, May 15»