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Urged vs Gurged - What's the difference?

urged | gurged |

As verbs the difference between urged and gurged

is that urged is (urge) while gurged is (gurge).

urged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (urge)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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

    Related terms

    * urgent

    See also

    * surge

    Anagrams

    * ----

    gurged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gurge)

    • gurge

    English

    Etymology 1

    See (gorge).

    Verb

    (gurg)
  • (obsolete) To swallow up.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) gurges.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A whirlpool.
  • * Milton
    • The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge / Boils out from under ground.
    (Webster 1913)