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Meanings of impel in English

Portuguese
impelir
Spanish
impulsar

To impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.

        impelir
        Portuguese
        propulsar
        Catalan
        impulsar
        Spanish
        impulsar

        Cause to move forward with force.

              propulsar
              Usage of impel in English
              1
              Where it is received in any power, it will impel to utterance.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
              2
              A drunken father may impel epilepsy, madness or idiocy in the child.
              Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
              3
              He reconfigured the distortion field to impel him in the other direction.
              The Neutronium Alchemist
              4
              Their natures impel many persons to commit various violations of the law.
              Dio's Rome, Volume 4 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
              5
              All my old habits of thinking, living, feeling impel me towards agreement.
              Eyeless in Gaza
              6
              For what was to impel it to seek for these better proofs?
              Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
              7
              They got out the oars, and endeavoured to impel it faster.
              The South Sea Whaler
              8
              It was to impel Monsieur to ask it that I moved.
              At a Winter's Fire
              9
              Thus, these three statesmen joined their voices to impel the nation to war.
              History of the Girondists, Volume I / Personal Memoirs of the Pa...
              10
              A force not her own seemed to sustain and impel her.
              What's Bred in the Bone
              11
              Can it impel a man, let us say, a bigot, to do wrong?
              An Introduction to Philosophy
              12
              Sara, examine your own heart; it is vanity and selfish ambition which impel you.
              The Home; Or, Life in Sweden
              13
              The arrows of intention must have the bow of strong purpose to impel them.
              It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration
              14
              If the invader respects the invaded, it is because very serious reasons impel her.
              The Life of the Spider
              15
              The demon of slaughter would impel them to tear him from limb to limb.
              Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
              16
              An abyss that impel those hopelorn over the precipice .
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              Spanish
              impulsar
              Impel through the time
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