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urge
noun as in very strong desire
verb as in beg, push for, encourage
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
I need to resist my urge to talk them into my truth, just so I can feel more comfortable and secure.
For instance, how do you balance honesty with any protective urge?
And not that anyone would know I have a self-protective urge, but I do have one.
On the other hand, I have an equally strong urge to tell secrets.
But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
And I have given this tedious detail to urge and embolden others to remonstrate against it.
In excusing the Freedom of your Satyr, you urge that it galls no body, because nobody minds it enough to be mended by it.
But this is quite enough to justify the inconsiderable expense which the experiment I urge would involve.
The judicious father saw that it would be utterly unavailing to urge the suit, and the matter was dropped.
At first the girl declined to follow advice which instinctively she distrusted, and Sir Lucien was too clever to urge it upon her.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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