Urge
Urge verb - To try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action.
Wake
Wake verb - To cause to stop sleeping.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| long | long urge | long wake |
| complete | complete urge | complete wake |
| real | real urge | real wake |
| big | big urge | big wake |
| Other adjectives: destructive. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Driven by an instinctual urge to be reunited with their hearts, the Nobodies are swarming over The Multiverse like a plague and leaving devastation in their wake.
Source: Video Game / Kingdom Hearts II -
There is one point in a run of Teen Titans when Beast Boy resists the urge to wake Raven because of this.
Source: Beautiful Dreamer - In the majority of their songs they urge the people to wake up and become pacifist gorillas to fight back against destructive society and media mind control.
Source: Music / Flobots
Cite this Source
Wake and Urge. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/urge/wake
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