Urge vs. Inspire — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Urge and Inspire
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Urge
To force or drive forward or onward; impel.
Inspire
To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.
Urge
To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.
Inspire
To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion
Hymns that inspire the congregation.
An artist who was inspired by Impressionism.
Urge
To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for
Urge passage of the bill.
A speech urging moderation.
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Inspire
To stimulate to action; motivate
A sales force that was inspired by the prospect of a bonus.
Urge
To stimulate; excite
"It urged him to an intensity like madness" (D.H. Lawrence).
Inspire
To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch
"At this moment he inspired her with disgust rather than with love" (Anthony Trollope).
Urge
To move or impel to action, effort, or speed; spur.
Inspire
To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse
A teacher who inspired admiration and respect.
Urge
To exert an impelling force; push vigorously.
Inspire
To be the cause or source of; bring about
An invention that inspired many imitations.
Urge
To present a forceful argument, claim, or case.
Inspire
To draw in (air) by inhaling.
Urge
The act of urging.
Inspire
To breathe on.
Urge
An impulse that prompts action or effort
Suppressed an urge to laugh.
Inspire
To breathe life into.
Urge
An involuntary tendency to perform a given activity; an instinct
"There is a human urge to clarify, rationalize, justify" (Leonard Bernstein).
Inspire
To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence
A leader who inspires by example.
Urge
A strong desire; an itch to do something.
After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle.
Sexual urges
Repress your urges
Satisfy your urges
Inspire
To inhale.
Urge
(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
Urge
(transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
The captain's speech was aimed to inspire her team to victory in the final.
Urge
(transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
Inspire
(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
Urge
(transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
Urge
(transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
To urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Urge
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
To urge an ore with intense heat
Inspire
(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.
Urge
(transitive) To press onward or forward.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath,Inspirèd hath in every holt and heathThe tender crops.
Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing,The breathing instruments inspire.
Urge
(transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
Urge
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight.
Inspire
To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.
Forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.
Urge
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
My brother neverDid urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
Inspire
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
And generous stout courage did inspire.
But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
Urge
To provoke; to exasperate.
Urge not my father's anger.
Inspire
To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats.
Erato, thy poet's mind inspire,And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
Urge
To press hard upon; to follow closely
Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
Inspire
To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.
Urge
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.
Inspire
To breathe; to blow gently.
And when the wind amongst them did inspire,They wavèd like a penon wide dispread.
Urge
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
Inspire
Heighten or intensify;
These paintings exalt the imagination
Urge
To press onward or forward.
Inspire
Supply the inspiration for;
The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
Urge
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
Inspire
Serve as the inciting cause of;
She prompted me to call my relatives
Urge
An instinctive motive;
Profound religious impulses
Inspire
Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Urge
A strong restless desire;
Why this urge to travel?
Inspire
Fill with revolutionary ideas
Urge
Force or impel in an indicated direction;
I urged him to finish his studies
Inspire
Draw in (air);
Inhale deeply
Inhale the fresh mountain air
The patient has trouble inspiring
The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well
Urge
Push for something;
The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day
Urge
Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
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