Direct
Direct verb - To cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway.
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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Or is it an uncontrollable urge to regress back to a form unseen in modern society, one that will allow you to set matters right in the most direct way possible?
Source: Murder Is the Best Solution -
And boy, does she (and her friends) get it.Ed Wood didn't direct this film, but he did write it, and had enough ownership in the film that he proudly had the porn producer's office festooned with a poster of it in The Sinister Urge.
Source: Film / The Violent Years
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