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(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. / (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

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Source Word

urge

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɜːd͡ʒ/

Verb

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(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. / (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

Japanese Meaning

促す：何かをするように説得や勧告する / 駆り立てる：意欲や感情を刺激して行動を起こさせる / 推し進める：前進させるように圧力をかける

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The manager had to urge the team to finish the report before the deadline.

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マネージャーはチームにレポートを締め切りまでに仕上げるよう強く促さなければならなかった。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

Lo hapless Tydeus, whose ill-fated hand / Had slain his brother, leaves his native land, / And seized with horror in the shades of night, / Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight[…]

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise.

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Sense（3）

(transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.

Vrge not my fathers anger (Eglamoure) / But thinke vpon my griefe (a Ladies griefe) / And on the iuſtice of my flying hence, / To keepe me from a moſt vnholy match, / Which heauen and fortune ſtill rewards with plagues.

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