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Meanings of propel (propels) in English

Portuguese
motivar
Spanish
motivar

Give an incentive for action.

motivar
Russian
пропэль

Nationalist political party in Wales.

Related terms
пропэль
Portuguese
propulsar
Catalan
impulsar
Spanish
impulsar

Cause to move forward with force.

propulsar
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Examples for "impel"
Examples for "impel"
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
Usage of propels in English
1
The average self-published ebook costs 99c, a fact that propels the market.
The Irish Times
2
It propels you to ask questions, to explore and, hopefully, to learn.
Feminist dot com
3
Today the strength of sterling propels the traffic in the other direction.
The Irish Times
4
Authoritative mothers Motherhood abruptly propels us into a state of emotional fragility.
Ebony
5
Veronica knows she shouldn't speed up, but sheer physical fear propels her.
Night of knives
6
Less weight from the suit means each stroke propels a swimmer farther.
Reuters
7
It automatically propels him to the list for the Nobel Peace Prize.
BBC
8
Sometimes you can exult in the stress because it propels you along.
The Irish Times
9
It can even be positive when it propels us into our destiny.
Ebony
10
His 1986 gem propels Marie Rivière through romantic relations in various locations.
The Irish Times
11
Sometimes love propels you to do something you would never do otherwise.
Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
12
He propels himself out of the water and snatches at the chicken.
The Guardian
13
He was under that stress of pity that propels us on sacrifices.
Daniel Deronda
14
This propels them into the air to be inhaled by other people.
The Irish Times
15
They are the springboard that propels other counties to an All-Ireland title.
The Irish Times
16
The force of the blow propels the Thing back into the greenhouse.
The thing from another world
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