urge-, urg- +

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".

1. A pressing necessity.
2. The need to deal with something quickly.

1. The quality or condition of a pressing necessity or importance.
2. Of pressing importance requiring speedy action.
3. An urgent situation calling for a prompt response.

1. A reference to something that a person needs to deal with immediately.
2. Conveying a sense of pressing importance.
3. Calling for immediate action or attention and the desire for something to be done quickly.

A place where people who are sick or injured can go for immediate treatment instead of a hospital emergency room.

1. Compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: "Volunteers are urgently needed to help with the flooding crisis."
2. With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because something is very important.

1. Someone who presents, advocates, or demands something earnestly.
2. A person who undertakes the accomplishment of something with energy, swiftness, or enthusiasm.
3. Anyone who has a strong impulse, inner drive, or yearning to get something completed.

The act of trying to to persuade someone in a serious way to do something: "At the urging of his mother, he chose to pursue a career in teaching."