Spread
Spread verb - To cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people.
Urge
Urge verb - To try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| high | high spread | high urge |
| common | common spread | common urge |
| real | real spread | real urge |
| big | big spread | big urge |
| Other adjectives: great, new, greater, sudden. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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He also used Poor Richard's Almanack as a way to spread his words of wisdom and urge other Americans to also make themselves into this trope.
Source: Creator / Benjamin Franklin -
The Vow: When Shen is in an intimate connection with Lianne — like when she's pressing her back against his chest to free herself from his hold, or during their First Kiss —, he has to fight his body's urge to spread out his peacock train and give a loud cry.
Source: Something Else Also Rises
Cite this Source
Urge and Spread. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/spread/urge
Spread & Urge. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/spread/urge>.
Urge or Spread. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/spread/urge.
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