URGE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urge on mean? 

• URGE ON (verb)
  The verb URGE ON has 2 senses:

1. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

2. force or impel in an indicated direction

  Familiarity information: URGE ON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URGE ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barrack; cheer; exhort; inspire; pep up; root on; urge; urge on

Context example:

The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers

Hypernyms (to "urge on" is one way to...):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "urge on"):

cheerlead (act as a cheerleader in a sports event)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Force or impel in an indicated direction

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exhort; press; urge; urge on

Context example:

I urged him to finish his studies

Hypernyms (to "urge on" is one way to...):

advise; counsel; rede (give advice to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "urge on"):

hurry; rush (urge to an unnatural speed)

bear on; push (press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action)

advocate; preach (speak, plead, or argue in favor of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

Sam cannot urge on Sue

 Context examples 

There was no need to urge on the mares, for they were already flying at a pace which could neither be stopped nor controlled.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)