urge

See also: urgé, urĝe, and ürge

English

Etymology

From Latin urgeō (“urge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɜːd͡ʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ɝd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Noun

urge (plural urges)

1. A strong desire; an itch to do something.
   • 1962, Robert Frost, “Away!”, in In the Clearing:

     Unless I’m wrong / I but obey / The urge of a song: / I’m—bound—away!

Translations

a strong desire; an itch to do something

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝動／冲动 (zh) (chōngdòng), 冲动 (zh) (chōngdòng), 願望／愿望 (zh) (yuànwàng), 愿望 (zh) (yuànwàng)

• Dutch: drang (nl) m, aandrang (nl) m, aandrift (nl) f
• Finnish: halu (fi), hinku (fi), vietti (fi)
• French: pulsion (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Drang (de) m
• Greek: παρόρμηση (el) f (parórmisi)
• Hebrew: דַּחַף (he) m (dáẖaf)
• Ido: urjo (io), urjigo
• Italian: pulsione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 願望 (ja) (がんぼう, ganbō), 衝動 (ja) (しょうどう, shōdō)
• Norwegian: trang (no) m
• Portuguese: comichão (pt) f, ânsia (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: побужде́ние (ru) n (pobuždénije), толчо́к (ru) m (tolčók), жела́ние (ru) n (želánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: poriv (sh) m
• Spanish: impulso (es) m
• Swahili: hanjamu (sw)
• Swedish: uppmana (sv)
• Telugu: త్వరపెట్టు (te) (tvarapeṭṭu)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

1. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
2. (transitive) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 345, column 2, lines 51–57:

     You do miſtake your buſines, my Brother neuer / Did vrge me in his Act : I did inquire it, / And haue my Learning from ſome true reports / That drew their ſwords with you, did he not rather / Diſcredit my authority with yours, / And make the warres alike againſt my ſtomacke, / Hauing alike your cauſe.

3. (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
   • 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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, Act IV, scene iii, page 24:

     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.

   • 1823, Sir Walter Scott, chapter II, in Quentin Durward, volume I, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., page 35:

     “I can answer a civil question civilly,” said the youth ; “and will pay fitting respect to your age, if you do not urge my patience with mockery. Since I have been here in France and Flanders, men have called me, in their fantasy, the Varlet with the Velvet Pouch, because of this hawk-purse which I carry by my side ; but my true name, when at home, is Quentin Durward.”

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.

5. (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.

   to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 222:

     To be urging her opinion against Sir Thomas's, was a proof of the extremity of the case, but such was her horror at the first suggestion, that she could actually look him in the face and say she hoped it might be settled otherwise; in vain however; […]

6. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.

   to urge an ore with intense heat

7. (transitive) To press onward or forward.
8. (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Synonyms

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• animate
• incite
• impel
• instigate
• stimulate
• encourage

Related terms

• urgent

Translations

to press, push, drive

• Arabic: حَثَّ (ḥaṯṯa)
• Bengali: সামনে অগ্রসর করা (śamone ogrośor kora)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 催促 (zh) (cuīcù)

• Esperanto: urĝi
• Finnish: ajaa (fi)
• French: pousser (fr), inciter (fr)
• German: drängen (de), mahnen (de), treiben (de)
• Hungarian: ösztönöz (hu), ösztökél (hu), serkent (hu), nógat (hu), unszol (hu)
• Ido: urjigar
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• Japanese: 催促する (ja) (さいそくする, saisoku suru)
• Latin: hortor (la)
• Latvian: skubināt
• Portuguese: impelir (pt)
• Russian: подгоня́ть (ru) impf (podgonjátʹ), подстёгивать (ru) impf (podstjógivatʹ), побужда́ть (ru) impf (pobuždátʹ), подстрека́ть (ru) impf (podstrekátʹ), подта́лкивать (ru) impf (podtálkivatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: coitich
• Spanish: impulsar (es), urgir (es), aguijonear (es), apresurar (es), presionar (es), empujar (es), apremiar (es), aguijar (es), jalear (es)
• Telugu: వత్తిడి (te) (vattiḍi)
• Turkish: ittirmek (tr)

to press the mind or will of

• Dutch: aansporen (nl)
• Finnish: painostaa (fi)
• French: inciter (fr)
• German: anspornen (de)
• Greek: παροτρύνω (el) (parotrýno)
• Hungarian: ösztönöz (hu)
• Japanese: せきたてる (sekitateru)
• Latin: hortor (la)
• Latvian: skubināt
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• Maori: ungaunga
• Portuguese: urgir (pt)
• Russian: убежда́ть (ru) impf (ubeždátʹ), сове́товать (ru) impf (sovétovatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: coitich
• Spanish: impeler (es), incitar (es), ahincar (es), aguijar (es), alentar (es), espolear (es)
• Telugu: వత్తిడి తెచ్చు (vattiḍi teccu)
• Vietnamese: hối (vi), thúc (vi), giục (vi)
• Welsh: annog (cy)

to provoke

• Finnish: raivostuttaa (fi)
• French: provoquer (fr)
• German: provozieren (de)
• Portuguese: provocar (pt)
• Russian: провоци́ровать (ru) impf (provocírovatʹ), подстрека́ть (ru) impf (podstrekátʹ)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Scottish Gaelic: coitich
• Spanish: provocar (es), incitar (es)
• Telugu: కోపము తెచ్చు (kōpamu teccu)

to present in an urgent manner

• Finnish: kiirehtiä (fi)
• Hungarian: sürget (hu), siettet (hu), szorgalmaz
• Japanese: 急き立てる (せきたてる, sekitateru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Scottish Gaelic: coitich
• Telugu: బలవంత పెట్టు (balavanta peṭṭu)

(obsolete) to treat with forcible means

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to press onward or forward

• Finnish: ajaa (fi)
• Portuguese: apressar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Telugu: ముందుకు నెట్టు (munduku neṭṭu)

to be pressing in argument; to insist

• Finnish: vaatia (fi), kehottaa (fi)
• French: insister (fr)
• Japanese: 催促する (ja) (さいそくする, saisoku suru)
• Portuguese: insistir (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Scottish Gaelic: coitich
• Spanish: instar (es)
• Telugu: వాదించు (te) (vādiñcu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} aansporen (nl)
• German: (1,2,4) ^{(please verify)} drängen (de), (1) ^{(please verify)} antreiben (de)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} spreag
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} esortare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 재촉하다 (ko) (jaechokhada)
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} manian
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} urgir (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} uppmana (sv)

See also

• surge

Anagrams

• Guer., Ruge, geru, grue, regu

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French

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urger

Anagrams

• grue

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Italian

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urgere

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) urgē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of urgeō

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Portuguese

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urgir
2. second-person singular imperative of urgir

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Spanish

Verb

urge

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of urgir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of urgir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of urgir.