OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 8716

impel

/ɪmˈpɛl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
impeler • impulsar
To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.
I feel impelled to reply to Roger Henry's letter about my article on being denied an apartment. I truly resent any insinuation that I "slunk back into that rotting old closet."
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all t…
impeler
To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.
The wind impelled the kayaks toward the shore.