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Modify vs Urge - What's the difference?

modify | urge |

As a verb modify

is to make partial changes to.

As a noun urge is

gopher (a small burrowing furry rodent).

modify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make partial changes to.
  • To be or become modified.

    • Synonyms

    * adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

    Related terms

    * modification * modifier

    References

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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

    Related terms

    * urgent

    See also

    * surge

    Anagrams

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