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urgent

ur·gent

UK/ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/ US/ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/ common

adjective

1.

compelling immediate action

  • “too pressing to permit of longer delay”
  • “the urgent words”
  • “";”
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Origin

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.

Phrases

  • urgent care

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