0 past simple and past participle of urge
1 to strongly advise or try to persuade someone to do a particular thing:
[ + to infinitive ] Lawyers will urge the parents to take further legal action.
[ + that ] Investigators urged that safety procedures at the site should be improved.
Police urged continued vigilance in the fight against crime.
The dogs are urged into fighting more fiercely by loud shouts from the crowd.
We will continue to urge for leniency to be shown to these prisoners.
Newspaper editors are being urged not to intrude into the grief of the families of missing servicemen.
The president urged other countries to lift the trade restrictions.
The World Bank is being urged to write off debts from developing countries.
He again urged approval of a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
In consequence thereof being reduced to the most abject state of poverty (thro, want of employment) has urged me to make this application.
While it urged the maximization of palm oil exports, the colonial government gave little encouragement to the production of by-products of palm oil for export.
It was not so much, as he ceaselessly urged, that some people were living longer lives as that most people were living normal lives.
