different between urge vs obtrude

English

Etymology

From Latin urge? (“urge”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Noun

urge (plural urges)

1. A strong desire; an itch to do something.

Translations

Verb

urge (third-person singular simple present urges, present participle urging, simple past and past participle urged)

1. (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
2. (transitive) To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
3. (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
4. (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.

   • Man?? and for ever?? wretch?! what wouldst thou have?? / Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

5. (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.

7. (transitive) To press onward or forward.
8. (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.

Synonyms

• animate
• incite
• impel
• instigate
• stimulate
• encourage

Related terms

• urgent

Translations

See also

• surge

Anagrams

• Guer., Ruge, geru, grue, regu

French

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urger

Anagrams

• grue

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -urd?e

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urgere

Latin

Verb

urg?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of urge?

Portuguese

Verb

urge

1. third-person singular present indicative of urgir
2. second-person singular imperative of urgir

Spanish

Verb

urge

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of urgir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of urgir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of urgir.

English

Etymology

From Latin obtr?d? (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + tr?d? (“thrust”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?u?d/, /?b?t?u?d/

Verb

obtrude (third-person singular simple present obtrudes, present participle obtruding, simple past and past participle obtruded)

1. (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area. [from 16th c.]
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:

     By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.

   • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:

     It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]

   • 2007, Andrew Martin, The Guardian, 16 Jul 2007:

     The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.

2. (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into). [from 16th c.]
   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:

     Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.

   • 1991, Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre:

     It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.

   • 2010, Colin Greenland, The Guardian, 7 Aug 2010:

     In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.

3. (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in. [from 17th c.]
   • 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, vol II:

     She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.

   • 2004, Marc Abrahams, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2004:

     This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?"

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 121:

     As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.

Derived terms

• obtruder

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• debtour, doubter, outbred, redoubt, turboed

Latin

Verb

obtr?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of obtr?d?