Impel
[ɪm'pel] or [ɪm'pɛl]
Definition
(verb.) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.
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Definition
(v. t.) To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Drive, push, urge, put in motion, press on, urge forward.[2]. Induce, move, persuade, influence, instigate, incite, actuate, set on, stir up.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See URGE]
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Definition
v.t. to urge forward: to excite to action: to instigate:—pr.p. impel′ling; pa.p. impelled′.—adj. Impel′lent impelling or driving on.—n. a power that impels.—n. Impel′ler.
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Examples
- They impel her to say, Snagsby has something on his mind! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The demonstration was, however, sufficiently successful to impel Jay Gould to contract to pay about $4,000,000 in stock for the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Perhaps like the rest of us they are impelled by forces they are not eager to examine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She was impelled to have the argument aloud, which she had been having in her own mind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings which can arm one being against the existence of another. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- After making the voyage to that port from London, he found himself so strongly impelled to cut the vessel, that he resolved to walk back again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This dilated until it filled the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my dreadful burden. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I don't doubt you any longer, said Dorothea, putting out her hand; a vague fear for him impelling her unutterable affection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It also must fit with such tightness as to prevent any escape of the gas in that direction, and force it to exert all its impelling power upon the ball. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The contrivance which was to take the place of the hand and eye of man in holding, applying, directing and impelling a cutting tool to the surface of the metal work was the _slide-rest_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As there are two factors at work impelling the piston, only a relatively low pressure in the boiler is required. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The hands of the clock are also moved by electro-magnets, by which means the impelling forces and the resistances encountered by the pendulum are always constant. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The speed of the instrument is regulated by the fan _e_; _f_ is the impelling weight, and _h_ the wire connected with the distant instrument. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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