urgeth

Verb

urge (third-person singular simple present urges, present participle urging, simple past and past participle urged)

1. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
   • Lo hapless Tydeus, whose ill-fated hand / Had slain his brother, leaves his native land, / And seized with horror in the shades of night, / Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight[…]1703, Statius, translated by Alexander Pope, edited by William Charles Macready, Thebais, London: Bradbury & Evans, translation of original in Classical Latin, published 1849, page 129

   Synonyms:

   animate, encourage, impel, stimulate

2. (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
   • My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise.

   Synonyms:

   instigate, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about, cheer

3. (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
   • Vrge not my fathers anger (Eglamoure) / But thinke vpon my griefe (a Ladies griefe) / And on the iuſtice of my flying hence, / To keepe me from a moſt vnholy match, / Which heauen and fortune ſtill rewards with plagues.1589–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac...

   Synonyms:

   agitate, strain, test, vex

4. (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
   • Man ? and for ever ? wretch ! what wouldst thou have ? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.a. 1744, Horace, “The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, volume III, London: William Pickering, translation of A...
5. (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
   • to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case
6. (obsolete, transitive) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
   • to urge an ore with intense heat

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