Verb

(en verb)

To comfort and embolden, encourage, animate, hearten

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Verb

(urg)

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

* Alexander Pope

through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight

To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

* Shakespeare

My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.

To provoke; to exasperate.

* Shakespeare

Urge not my father's anger.

To press hard upon; to follow closely.

* Alexander Pope

Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.

to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case

(obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.

to urge an ore with intense heat

To press onward or forward.

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