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[pruh-pel]

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verb (used with object), -pelled, -pel·ling.

to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.

to impel or urge onward: Urgent need of money propelled him to take a job.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English propellen to expel < Latin prōpellere to drive forward, equivalent to prō- pro-¹ + pellere to drive

Related forms

un·pro·pelled, adjective

Synonyms
1, 2. push, prod.

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New levels of philanthropic investments can propel them beyond the subsistence support that has been far too customary.

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The saucer will hover and propel itself using electrodes that cover its surface to ionize the surrounding air into plasma.

Laborers pushed vertical winches to propel elevators that carried animal cages up to the arena.

Once ignited, combustion would propel the torpedo to its target, where it might explode.

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But it, too, helps propel the genes of the successful into future generations.

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Fish propel themselves by contracting muscles on either side of their bodies, generating a wave that travels from head to tail.

Haitians will propel themselves forward, and education is critical to this process.

Without government support, carmakers will rely on the revival in economic growth to propel business.

Short, powerful legs propel his trademark lethal lunge and fabled leaps.

It would make more sense to mount a fan on the trunk to propel a sail mounted to the hood.

Hydrogen fuel cells already propel experimental vehicles and supply power for some buildings.

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Powerful fins propel the streamlined fish toward meals of smaller fish and squid-and away from hungry sharks.

We need a lot of energy to propel the modern civilization onwards, but it does not come by cheap.

Frisbee presented a theoretical design for a ship using antimatter to propel its way to nearby stars.

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Powerful flukes can propel a whale for many days without a single stop.

Instead, he relied on his pack's hydrogen peroxide-filled tanks to propel him across the abyss.

As you run around inside the ball, indented plastic cups on the exterior grip the water and propel you about.

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But exactly how they propel their tongues with such power has never been convincingly explained.

Nearly a decade ago, artificial muscles in synthetic fins were used to propel artificial fish.

They propel themselves using helium buoyancy and two-directional motors.

Flying fish can whip their tails back and forth with tremendous speed to propel themselves out of the water.

The ice cap has been putting pressure on molten magma below, helping to propel the plume of vapor and volcanic ash skyward.

Well, solid state is what the power supply will be to tap the energy out of the aether to make it float and propel.

So an infinitesimal incline of its rider's head will propel the scooter in the chosen direction.

When engines are required an electrically powered water jet can be fired from below the stern to propel the boat forward.

Each stroke seems to propel me twice the usual distance.

These might propel it forward faster provided other factors playing into the context are right as well.

Ice worms propel themselves using setae, extremely small bristles that protrude from the sides of their bodies.

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As if speaking the words would propel them toward truth.

Clown fish are rowers who propel themselves by moving their pectoral fins horizontally, wiggling their entire body.

The bug's strong back legs can propel the katydid into the air.

His sea legs, fragile at the start, now propel him up and down the ladders.

But they are also notable for having helped propel the careers of many.

It also helps to propel the stature of a university that's solidifying its image as a top-tier national research university.

He can propel a wheel of dough across his shoulders.

They work in concert to sit still in the sky, or to tilt and propel themselves.

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In normal electronics, electric fields propel electrons, which shed heat in the process.

The flatter they are, the better they work to propel the body''.

Sometimes the burst of adrenaline you get the night before the deadline is enough to propel you to a successful finish.

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The particle would find suitable polarities and frequencies to propel itself along the waves.

The manager of a competing colliery debunked the theory that a locomotive needed a cog to propel it while carrying heavy loads.

High prices have already begun to propel a supply response elsewhere in the world.

The four brushless motors propel the rotors in opposite directions.

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They propel themselves using helium buoyancy and two directional motors.

She is short of breath and too weak to propel her wheelchair more than a few feet.

With only a small amount of power they lift a one ton vehicle off the ground and propel it all over creation.

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She's exploring the external power sources that propel the perpetual motion of oceans.

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Entrepreneurial zeal and market forces, guided by sustainable policies, can propel the world into a bright green future.

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But disrupters argue that non-linear discontinuities propel society forward in a way that optimisation alone would never produce.

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He and his wife were in the only one with a working engine, he said, but it was not strong enough to propel the boat.

He might as well be using mathematics to demonstrate how a reactionless drive will propel spacecraft.

Giant boosters strapped to a rocket ship or built into it blast gallons upon gallons of fuel to propel the rocket into space.

Their ageing founders long to diversify their firms and propel them into the top ranks of the financial establishment.

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The gasoline engine could directly propel the wheels, but it won't directly propel the wheels.

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But it is the blurred limbs that grab us and indicate which powerful muscles are working to propel the animal.

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Using images to propel the story allows him to cut out much of the narration, making it quicker to read.

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The idea was to put people in carriages and propel them through underground tubes using air pressure generated by gigantic fans.

And over shorter distances, the electric motor will propel the car using energy stored in a lithium-ion battery.

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Big news actually there are no dwarfs hidden in the wings cicling to propel the engines.

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propel (prəˈpɛl)

—vb , -pels, -pelling, -pelled
	(tr) to impel, drive, or cause to move forwards

[C15: from Latin prōpellere to drive onwards, from pro-¹ + pellere to drive]

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Word Origin & History

propel

c.1440, "to drive away, expel," from L. propellere "push forward," from pro- "forward" + pellere "to push, drive." Meaning "to drive onward, cause to move forward" is from 1658. Propellant "fuel for a rocket engine" is from 1919. Propeller in mechanical sense is first attested 1809, of ships; of flying

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machines (in a broad, theoretical sense) 1842, in the specific modern sense 1853; shortened form prop is recorded from 1914.

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