Urges Synonyms and Antonyms

Force or impel in an indicated direction
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. presses
  2. pushes
  3. forces
  4. spurs
  5. prods
  6. goads
  7. obliges
  8. makes
  9. exhorts
  10. constrains
  11. coerces
  12. impels
  13. propels
  14. drives
  15. compels
Antonyms:
  1. dissuades
  2. withholds
  3. blocks
  4. discourages
  5. denies

Words Related to Urges

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Urges Sentence Examples

  • People have urges and sometimes things just happen.

  • Don't fight your urges for me.

  • He urges that an adequate explanation is impossible on the assumption of a Jewish or Christian origin.

  • The Wycliffite authorship of the Commentaries on the Gospels, on which the learned editors base their argument, is, however, unsupported by any evidence beyond the fact that the writer of the Prologue to Matthew urges in strong language " the propriety of translating Scripture for the use of the laity."

  • He urges very rightly that if alteration is carried beyond a certain point it cuts away its own foundation, and so all certainty is destroyed.

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