Change
Change verb - To make different in some way.
Urge
Urge verb - To try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action.
How words are described
| physical | physical change | physical urge |
| complete | complete change | complete urge |
| instant | instant change | instant urge |
| real | real change | real urge |
| Other adjectives: constant, big, great, interesting, new, apparent, last, sudden. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They will believe transponder identification over visual identification, and in a throwaway gag one robot says he has an urge to get an oil change every 5000 km.
Source: My Instincts Are Showing -
I feel the uncontrollable urge to change what happens, just to prove them wrong. Petty?
Source: Jossed - It's at this point that Psaro begins considering killing off all of humankind, but Rose begs him to give humanity a change to peacefully coexist, so he resists the urge.
Source: Break The Cutie / Video Games
Cite this Source
Urge and Change. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/change/urge
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