Definition of impel

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Impel (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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Pole :: Pole (v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat..
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore..
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course..
Thrust :: Thrust (v. t.) To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument..
Impulsion :: Impulsion (n.) The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse..
Impulsive :: Impulsive (n.) That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.
Projectile :: Projectile (a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force..
Secretiveness :: Secretiveness (n.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment..
Billiards :: Billiards (n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished..
Injector :: Injector (n.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor..
Propulsion :: Propulsion (n.) An impelling act or movement.
Instinct :: Instinct (a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life..
Impulse :: Impulse (n.) The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean..
Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
Send :: Send (v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like..
Miscue :: Miscue (n.) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
Scull :: Scull (v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side..
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