urge
敦促,督促,促成,促请
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urged, urg·ing.
- : to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- : to drive with incitement to speed or effort: to urge dogs on with shouts.
- : to press, push, or hasten: to urge one's escape.
- : to impel, constrain, or move to some action: urged by necessity.
- : to endeavor to induce or persuade, as by entreaties; entreat or exhort earnestly: to urge a person to greater caution.
- : to press upon the attention: to urge a claim.
- : to insist on, allege, or assert with earnestness: to urge the need of haste.
- : to press by persuasion or recommendation, as for acceptance, performance, or use; recommend or advocate earnestly: to urge a plan of action.
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urged, urg·ing.
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Examples
The team reasoned this urge might stem from natural instincts to hunt, or from a need for cats to supplement their diet.
For so long, I thought, “I want a seat at the table,” but now I have this urge to knock over the table.
The downside is you won’t be able to look at an untended tree again without seeing a wayward branch and feeling the urge to fix it.
You have to control the urge to panic and maintain some sense of inner peace.
He felt an urge to return to the District for the first time after watching the inauguration on television Wednesday night.
I need to resist my urge to talk them into my truth, just so I can feel more comfortable and secure.
For instance, how do you balance honesty with any protective urge?
And not that anyone would know I have a self-protective urge, but I do have one.
On the other hand, I have an equally strong urge to tell secrets.
But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
And I have given this tedious detail to urge and embolden others to remonstrate against it.
In excusing the Freedom of your Satyr, you that it galls no body, because nobody minds it enough to be mended by it.