urge• Police are urgingdrivers not to come into London this weekend.• The company's bosses are urging full cooperation with the tradeunion.• Lori dominated the table and Travis urged her on with a few well-chosen words.• This has often led him to tightenmonetarypolicy while everybody around was urging him to ease.• What induced them to do this is not known, but Creon urged it and Oedipus' sons consented to it.• She had urged me to go out on my own, to start my own company.• He urgednewspapers not to identifycriminals by religion.• Herrera urgedpatience in the negotiations.• He gave copies of the report to all those present at the meeting, urging that they read and digest its contents.• It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site.• They urge their students to see the parallels between the lives they are studying and their own.
urge something on/upon somebody• During summervacation, Mrs. White regularly urged books on me.
urge2 ●●○ noun [countableC]
1WANTa strong wish or need 强烈的欲望;迫切的要求;冲动SYN desire
urge to do something
He could no longer resist the urge to go and see Amanda.
他再也抑制不住去看阿曼达的冲动。
Suddenly she had an overwhelming urge to be with her son.
突然,她有一种无法抗拒的冲动,要和儿子在一起。
nCOLLOCATIONS
adjectives
strong/powerful
The urge was too strong to resist.
an irresistible/uncontrollable/overwhelming urge (=very strong)
I was overcome by an irresistible urge to laugh.
a sudden urge
She fought back the sudden urge to beg his forgiveness.
a sexual/biological urge
Most of us feel the biological urge to reproduce.
a primal/instinctive/basic/natural urge (=a natural urge that all people have)
Every animal has an instinctive urge to survive.
verbs
feel/have an urge
I still sometimes feel an urge to have a cigarette.
resist/fight/suppress an urge
She had to resist a constant urge to look back over her shoulder.
satisfy an urge (=do want you feel you want to do)
He satisfied his urge to travel by going to India.
give in to an urge (=do what you feel you want to do, when this is wrong)
I try not to give in to the urge to gossip.
Examples from the Corpus
urge• More crudely, they are written off as a rampagingmob, victim to primitiveurges or the machinations of conspirators.• If you have the same urge for desert places - go now.• sexualurges• I felt a suddenurge to tell him all my problems.• But the urge to indulge, never rational, never completely disappears.• Most individuals experience the urge to defecate on morning awakening and after meals, when colonic motility is known to peak.• Bedford felt the urge to have a go but suppressed it.• He was fighting the urge to drink as he waited for her to come down.• Sheena resisted the urge to get in her car and go home.• She was seized with the urge to drag Alice from her chair and shake her.• Behavioral modification is often used for women with urge incontinence.
resist ... urge• Corrigan resisted the urge to grab him by the arm and hold him.• Bernice could hardly resist the urge to turn and run, but she supported Defries and retreatedstep by step.• HealthResist the urge to over-exert yourself.• Will we as lawyers use our privileged positions to extend our influence, or resist the urge to make ourselves indispensable?• But she resisted the urge to turn and glance at him and kept her eyes fixedstraight ahead.• With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation.• Yanto resisted the urge to rush things.• You resist the urge to test the weight on the lid again, because by now you've forgotten how it felt before.