Crossword-Solution: URGES 5 letters, 116 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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"Hope ever ___ on."—Tibullus. 1 answer
"Primal" impulses 1 answer
"Primitive" feelings 1 answer
Cravings or desires 1 answer
Earnestly recommends 1 answer
Forces onward. 1 answer
Hard-to-control impulses 1 answer
Hard-to-ignore impulses 1 answer
Hard-to-resist impulses 1 answer
Hastens (on). 1 answer
Impels to some action. 1 answer
Instinctive impulses 1 answer
Intense impulses 1 answer
Involuntary impulses 1 answer
Irrational motives 1 answer
More than asks 1 answer
More than suggests 1 answer
Natural instincts 1 answer
Presses for 1 answer
Presses for a cause 1 answer
Presses strongly 1 answer
Primal desires 1 answer
Primal feelings 1 answer
Prompts strongly 1 answer
Recommends strongly. 1 answer
Recovering addicts' feelings 1 answer
Refrigerator raid preceders 1 answer
Roots (on) 1 answer
Says "Come on, try harder!," say 1 answer
Says go for it 1 answer
Snack attacks, e.g. 1 answer
Strongly advocates 1 answer
Strongly encourages 1 answer
Strongly recommends 1 answer
Strongly suggests 1 answer
Subjects of "birds and bees" talks 1 answer
Sudden desires 1 answer
Sudden feelings 1 answer
Suggests strongly 1 answer
Tells to "Do it!" 1 answer
They are hard to resist 1 answer
They can be hard to fight 1 answer
They can be hard to resist 1 answer
They may be fought 1 answer
They may be hard to control 1 answer
They may be irresistible 1 answer
They're hard to ignore 1 answer
Things to keep down, perhaps 1 answer
Twists one's arm 1 answer
What the id works on 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with URGES (5)

Had Clifford attained the balcony, he would probably have leaped into the street; but whether impelled by the species of terror that sometimes urges its victim over the very precipice which he shrinks from, or by a natural magnetism, tending towards the great centre of humanity, it were not easy to decide.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Edward answers by fresh assurances of secrecy, and again urges on him the necessity of procuring some venison.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Semple, beaming with pride, walks around and views him from every angle, and urges him to be careful where he sits down; she is so afraid he will pick up some dust.
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 2008
Just now you declared Montraville's happiness was what you prized most in the world; and now I suppose you repent having insured that happiness by agreeing to accompany him abroad.” “Indeed I do repent,” replied Charlotte, “from my soul: but while discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.” “Ruin! fiddlestick!” said Mademoiselle; “am I not going with you? and do I feel any of these qualms?” “You do not renounce a tender father and mother,” said Charlotte.
Charlotte Temple Susanna Rowson 2006
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Quotes with URGES (3)

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I hav…
Clarence Darrow The Story of My Life
She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack her.
Rick Riordan The Lost Hero
Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.
Ramez Naam More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 265 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).