The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word URGE
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More clues leading to the result URGE
- Press crumpled rug with energy
- Some honour geisha's desire
- Withholding power clear out press
- Drive ultimately ending in river
- Encourage heading away from sudden rise in water
- Fancy liqueur gentleman bottles
- Longing to remove initiator of political clean-up
- Head going off to purge press
- Desire that’s in our genes
- Impulse our gentlemen must restrain
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The straight part
We know that "press" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case press = urge.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does URGE mean?
URGE noun- A strong desire; an itch to do something.
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
- To press onward or forward.
- To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.