urge: signification et définitions

To force or drive forward or onward; impel.

To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.

To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for: urge passage of the bill; a speech urging moderation.

To stimulate; excite: "It urged him to an intensity like madness” ( D.H. Lawrence).

To move or impel to action, effort, or speed; spur.

To exert an impelling force; push vigorously.

To present a forceful argument, claim, or case.

The act of urging.

An impulse that prompts action or effort: suppressed an urge to laugh.

An involuntary tendency to perform a given activity; an instinct: "There is a human urge to clarify, rationalize, justify” ( Leonard Bernstein).