Definition of "urge" []

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I won't, because I can no longer abide physicians, but the urge is there."
• "Most of the time the urge is to be alone in a room, so that is why I write."
• "In well managed private business which must pay dividends, the urge is always to keep personnel at a minimum."