Proceed
Proceed verb - To move forward along a course.
Urge and proceed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Urge" instead a verb "Proceed".
Nearby Word: proceeding
Urge
Urge verb - To try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- And then some damn fool, usually a techpriest, gets the urge to fiddle with things and the Necrons themselves show up, often by teleportation, and proceed to slaughter everyone.
Source: He Was Right There All Along -
The notion of using blood to surpass humanity is missing from the English script, and the Japanese version of the last verse is "We urge you to fear the blood as you proceed".
Source: Video Game / Bloodborne -
Either this is true—which doesn't make a lot of sense, given prior events—or else the suggestion is enough to snap Lilli's already-fractured mind and cause her to create a hallucinatory Edna and Garrett, who proceed to tell her they're hallucinations and urge her to give up.
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