Task and Urge

Task

Task verb - To give a task, duty, or responsibility to.

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Urge and task are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Urge" instead a verb "Task".

Nearby Words: tasked, taskwork, tasking

Urge verb - To try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action.

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Task and urge are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Task" instead a verb "Urge".

Nearby Words: urged, urging

physical	physical task	physical urge
long	long task	long urge
common	common task	common urge
regular	regular task	regular urge
Other adjectives: annoying, great, new, heroic, last.

The addiction renders her unable to perform any task, no matter how simple, due to her overwhelming urge to continue reading the journal.

Source: I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin
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
The task of Jesus, among other things, was to awaken that slumbering urge.

Source: Creator / Henrik Wergeland

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