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pro⋅pel

  [pruh-pel]
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–verb (used with object), -pelled, -pel⋅ling.
1. to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
2. to impel or urge onward: Urgent need of money propelled him to take a job.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME propellen to expel < L prōpellere to drive forward, equiv. to prō- pro- 1 + pellere to drive

Synonyms:
1, 2. push, prod.
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pro·pel   (prə-pěl')   
tr.v.   pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling, pro·pels
To cause to move forward or onward. See Synonyms at push.

[Middle English propellen, from Latin prōpellere : prō-, forward; see pro-1 + pellere, to drive; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.]
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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 machines (in a broad, theoretical sense) 1842, in the specific modern sense 1853; shortened form prop is recorded from 1914.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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