Urge vs Expedite - What's the difference?
urge | expedite |
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.
To accelerate the progress of.
To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.
Free of impediment; unimpeded.
* Hooker
Expeditious; quick; prompt.
* Tillotson
* John Locke
In transitive terms the difference between urge and expedite
is that urge is to be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist while expedite is to perform (a task) fast and efficiently.As a noun urge
is a strong desire; an itch to do something.As an adjective expedite is
free of impediment; unimpeded.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
Synonyms
* animate * incite * impel * instigate * stimulate * encourageSee also
* surgeAnagrams
* ----expedite
English
Verb
(expedit)- He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
Antonyms
* impede * slow downAdjective
(en adjective)- to make the way plain and expedite
- nimble and expedite in its operation
- Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.