URGED

Verb

urged

simple past tense and past participle of urge

Anagrams

• Rudge, grued, redug, rudge

Source: Wiktionary


URGE

Urge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Urged; p. pr. & vb. n. Urging.] Etym: [L. urgere; akin to E. wreak. See Wreak, v. t.]

1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope.

2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it. Shak.

3. To provoke; to exasperate. [R.] Urge not my father's anger. Shak.

4. To press hard upon; to follow closely Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. Pope.

5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.

6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

Syn.

– To animate; incite; impel; instigate; stimulate; encourage.

Urge, v. i.

1. To press onward or forward. [R.]

2. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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