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Urge vs. Inspire — What's the Difference?

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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