Bring
Bring verb - To cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request.
Usage example: nothing will ever bring her to admit she's wrong
Nearby Word: bringing
Urge
Urge verb - To try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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After being infected, Grant tries and succeeds at resisting the urge to eat Starla, and has his drones bring her back home and dress her in silk and comb her hair lovingly.
Source: Film / Slither - Both teams have to resist the urge to kill each other and work together to bring down the Halloween monstrosity if they want to go back to the more traditional task of capturing the point and killing each other.
Source: Enemy Mine / Video Games - Neither his boss, his father nor his potential love interest deny that it is, but urge him to instead think of the failure as motivation to do better the next time, rather than run away from responsibility and risk entrusting his friends to someone who might not bring them back alive.
Source: It's All My Fault
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