Urged vs Enjoyed - What's the difference?
urged | enjoyed |
(urge)
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.
(enjoy)
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To have the use or benefit of something.
* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
To have sexual intercourse with.
As verbs the difference between urged and enjoyed
is that urged is past tense of urge while enjoyed is past tense of enjoy.urged
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*urge
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(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
* ----enjoyed
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(head)enjoy
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(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
- This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
- (Milton)