Enliven vs Urge - What's the difference?
enliven | urge | Related terms |
(obsolete) To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
* Alexander Pope
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
* Shakespeare
To provoke; to exasperate.
* Shakespeare
To press hard upon; to follow closely.
* Alexander Pope
To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
(obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
To press onward or forward.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
Enliven is a related term of urge.
As a verb enliven
is (obsolete|transitive) to give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.As a noun urge is
gopher (a small burrowing furry rodent).enliven
English
Verb
(en verb)- The game was much enlivened when both teams scored within five minutes of each other.
Synonyms
* liven * liven upDerived terms
* enlivener * enlivenmentSee also
* animate * brighten * cheer up * invigorate * quicken * vitalizeReferences
urge
English
Verb
(urg)- through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
- My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
- Urge not my father's anger.
- Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
- to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
- to urge an ore with intense heat