Urge /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Urged; p. pr. & vb. n. Urging

1. To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

   Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight.

2. To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

   My brother never Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.

3. To provoke; to exasperate. [R.]

   Urge not my father's anger.

4. To press hard upon; to follow closely

   Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

5. To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.
6. To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

1. To press onward or forward. [R.]
2. To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.