urgeɜrdʒ(v.; n.)urged, urg•ing

1. (v.t.)to push or force along; impel with force or vigor.

2. to drive with incitement to speed or effort:

   to urge dogs on with shouts.

3. to press, push, or hasten (the course, activities, etc.):

   to urge one's escape.

4. to impel or move to some action:

   urged by necessity.

5. to endeavor to induce or persuade, as by entreaties; exhort:

   to urge a person to greater caution.

6. to press (something) upon the attention:

   to urge a claim.

7. to insist on or assert with earnestness:

   to urge the need of haste.

8. to recommend earnestly:

   to urge a plan of action.

9. (v.i.)to exert a driving or impelling force; give an impulse to haste or action.

10. to make entreaties or earnest recommendations.

11. to press arguments or allegations, as against a person.

12. (n.)an act of urging; impelling action, influence, or force; impulse.

13. an involuntary or instinctive impulse:

    the sex urge.

Origin of urge:

1550–60; < L urgēre to press, drive, urge

urg′er(n.)