Utter vs Urge - What's the difference?
utter | urge |
* Chapman
* Spenser
* Milton
(obsolete) Outward.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
* Atterbury
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To say
To use the voice
To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved
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To make (a noise)
(legal) To put counterfeit money, etc. , into circulation
(label) Further out; further away, outside.
*, Bk.VII, Ch.v:
*:So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir —‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’
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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.
As an adjective utter
is .As a verb utter
is to say.As an adverb utter
is (label) further out; further away, outside.As a noun urge is
gopher (a small burrowing furry rodent).utter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; compare (outer).Adjective
(-)- By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.
- As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.
- Through utter and through middle darkness borne.
- Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.
- So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .
- utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness
- They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.
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Synonyms
* see alsoDerived terms
* utterly * utterness * uttermostEtymology 2
Partly from (out) (adverb/verb), partly from (etyl) uteren.Verb
(en verb)- Don't you utter another word!
- Sally uttered a sigh of relief.
- The dog uttered a growling bark.
- Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.
- Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.
Derived terms
* utterance * utterer * utterless * utterableEtymology 3
(etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)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