verb

• (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
  "Lo hapless Tydeus, whose ill-fated hand / Had slain his brother, leaves his native land, / And seized with horror in the shades of night, / Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight[…]"
• (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."
• (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
  "Vrge not my fathers anger (Eglamoure) / But thinke vpon my griefe (a Ladies griefe) / And on the iuſtice of my flying hence, / To keepe me from a moſt vnholy match, / Which heauen and fortune ſtill rewards with plagues."
• (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
  "Man ? and for ever ? wretch ! what wouldst thou have ? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave."