1. To advise or to entreat someone strongly and earnestly to do something.
2. To advocate or to demand something emphatically; that is, to recommend or to advise something to be done with persistence: "She was urged to restrain her eating habits."
3. To press, to hasten, or to impel someone to complete a course of action.
4. Etymology: from Latin urgere, "to press hard, to push, to drive, to compel".