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enjoin | urge | Related terms |

Enjoin is a related term of urge.


As a verb enjoin

is (transitive|chiefly|literary) to lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

As a noun urge is

gopher (a small burrowing furry rodent).

enjoin

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive, chiefly, literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
  • * - Esther 9:31
  • To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.
  • (legal) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
  • * Kent
  • This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.

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    urge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong desire; an itch to do something.
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * animate * incite * impel * instigate * stimulate * encourage

    See also

    * surge

    Anagrams

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