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.

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(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.

Verb

(desir)

To want; to wish for earnestly.

* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24

Neither shall any man desire thy land.

* Tennyson

Ye desire your child to live.

To put a request to (someone); to entreat.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:

And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.

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To want emotionally or sexually.

To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.

* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28

Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?

* Shakespeare

Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.

To require; to demand; to claim.

* Spenser

A doleful case desires a doleful song.

To miss; to regret.

* Jeremy Taylor

She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.