urge: signification et définitions
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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.
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).