Synonyms of the word

urge

• n. A strong desire; an itch to do something.
• v. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
• v. (transitive) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
• v. (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
• v. (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
• v. (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
• v. (transitive) To press onward or forward.
• v. (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

advise

• v. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
• v. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
• v. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.

advocate

• n. Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
• n. Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
• n. A person who speaks in support of something.
• n. A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
• v. (transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support,…
• v. (transitive) To encourage support for something.
• v. (intransitive, with for) To engage in advocacy.

barrack

• n. (military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred…
• n. (chiefly in the plural) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing…
• n. (chiefly in the plural) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
• n. (US, regional) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial, usually in the plural) A police station.
• v. (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
• v. (intransitive) To live in barracks.
• v. (Britain, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.

cheer

• n. (obsolete) The face.
• n. (obsolete) One's expression or countenance.
• n. (archaic) One's attitude, mood.
• n. (uncountable) A cheerful attitude; gaiety; mirth.
• n. That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment.
• n. A cry expressing joy, approval or support such as "hurray".
• n. A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.
• v. (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
• v. (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.

counsel

• n. The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
• n. Exercise of judgment; prudence.
• n. Advice; guidance.
• n. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
• n. (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
• n. A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
• v. To give advice, especially professional advice.
• v. To recommend.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

encourage

• v. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
• v. To spur on, strongly recommend.
• v. To foster, give help or patronage.

exhort

• v. To urge; to advise earnestly.

impulse

• n. A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
• n. A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
• n. (physics) The integral of force over time.
• v. (obsolete) To impel; to incite.

inspire

• v. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural…
• v. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what…
• v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
• v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
• v. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

itch

• n. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
• n. A desire or want.
• v. (intransitive) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
• v. (intransitive) To want or desire.
• v. (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

motivation

• n. Willingness of action especially in behavior.
• n. The action of motivating.
• n. Something which motivates.
• n. An incentive or reason for doing something.
• n. (advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial…

motive

• n. (obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine…
• n. An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything…
• n. (obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
• n. (law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
• n. (architecture, fine arts) A motif.
• n. (music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
• v. (transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
• adj. Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move.
• adj. Relating to motion and/or to its cause.

need

• n. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
• n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• v. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
• v. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
• v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
• v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

propose

• v. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
• v. (transitive) To intend.
• v. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
• v. (obsolete) To set forth.
• n. (obsolete) An objective or aim.

recommend

• v. (transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an…
• v. (transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
• v. (transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.

rede

• n. (archaic) Help, advice, counsel.
• n. (archaic) Decision, a plan.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To govern, protect.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To discuss, deliberate.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To advise.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.

suggest

• v. (transitive) To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.
• v. To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).
• v. (transitive) To ask for without demanding.
• v. (transitive) To recommend.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.