The meaning of URGE is to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly. How to use urge in a sentence.

URGING definition: 1. the act of strongly advising or encouraging someone to do a particular thing: 2. the act of…. Learn more.

To force or drive forward or onward; impel. 2. To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort. 3. To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for: urge passage of the …

Synonyms for URGING: persuading, exhortation, coaxing, entreaty, convincing, inducement, wheedling, prompting; Antonyms of URGING: discouraging, deterring, checking, dissuading, …

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The earliest known use of the noun urging is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for urging is from 1615, in the writing of Samuel Hieron, Church of England clergyman and …

What does the adjective urging mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective urging , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, …

If you have an urge to do or have something, you have a strong wish to do or have it. He had an urge to open a shop of his own.

Present participle of urge. It took little urging to bring his mouth down to hers. It wasn't a case of urging them on, there was no holding them in till we reached the place. Each time she exhaled …

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