urge

(ûrj)

1. To force or drive forward or onward; impel.
2. To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.
3. To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for: urge passage of the bill; a speech urging moderation.
4. To stimulate; excite: “It urged him to an intensity like madness” (D.H. Lawrence).
5. To move or impel to action, effort, or speed; spur.

1. To exert an impelling force; push vigorously.
2. To present a forceful argument, claim, or case.

1. The act of urging.
2. a. An impulse that prompts action or effort: suppressed an urge to laugh.
   b. An involuntary tendency to perform a given activity; an instinct: “There is a human urge to clarify, rationalize, justify” (Leonard Bernstein).