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Unhappy, urge into action (9)

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I believe the answer is:

depressed

'unhappy' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'urge into action' is the wordplay.
'urge' becomes 'press' (synonyms).
'into' indicates putting letters inside.
'action' becomes 'deed' (deed is a kind of action).
'press' going into 'deed' is 'DEPRESSED'.

(Other definitions for depressed that I've seen before include "Poverty-stricken" , "Having been pushed down" , "25 [BLUE]" , "showing the blues" , "Unhappy, despondent" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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