urged
- 1Simple past and past participle of urge.
The committee urged residents to evacuate before the storm arrived.
Doctors have long urged patients to exercise regularly.
Note
Every meaning of urge takes a direct object, so its participle moves easily into the passive. You can urge people (residents were urged to leave) or urge an argument (the objection was urged repeatedly). Older writing holds a trap: in a now-obsolete use, to be urged meant to be treated with forcible, even violent, measures, not merely pressed or persuaded.
Residents were urged to leave before nightfall.
The same objection was urged repeatedly at the meeting.
urged is a form of urge
urge, verb: To press someone to do something through arguments, persuasion, or repeated appeals. Full entry
- Spelling
- urge → urged: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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