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Propel   /prəpˈɛl/   Listen
Propel

verb
(past & past part. propelled; pres. part. propelling)
1.
Cause to move forward with force.  Synonym: impel.
2.
Give an incentive for action.  Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt.



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"Propel" Quotes from Famous Books



... and barangays, which are certain quick and light vessels that lie low in the water, put together with little wooden nails. These are as slender at the stern as at the bow, and they can hold a number of rowers on both sides, who propel their vessels with bucceyes or paddles, and with gaones [68] on the outside of the vessel; and they time their rowing to the accompaniment of some who sing in their language refrains by which they understand whether ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVI, 1609 • H.E. Blair

... in conjunction, Propel the high poetic function, As in a love-adventure they might play! You meet by accident; you feel, you stay, And by degrees your heart is tangled; Bliss grows apace, and then its course is jangled; You're ravished quite, then comes a touch of ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... the head of "Snow" in the Concordance, the discourse comes to an end; and every liberated urchin goes home with his head full of devout fancies of building a snow-fort, after sunset, from which to propel consecrated missiles against ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various

... but thirty-two at this moment, and all the knowledge got of the wrestling river-drivers of his boyhood, when he had spent hours by the river struggling with river-champions, came back to him. It was a relief to his sick soul to wrench and strain, and propel and twist and force onward, step by step, to the door opening on the river, this creature who had left his ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... This petition was seconded by a message from the king, importing, that his majesty, as far as his interest was concerned, gave his consent that the house might act in this affair as they should think propel. ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett


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