impels
Meaning of impels
verb, 3rd person present
- drive, force, or urge (someone) to do something.
financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures
a lack of equality impelled the oppressed to fight
late Middle English (in the sense ‘propel’): from Latin impellere, from in- ‘towards’ + pellere ‘to drive’.
Information about impels
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of impels is: impel.
- Languages in which impels is used:
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Hyphenation of impels
im-pels
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- impels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
impels synonyms
Meaning make (someone) do something against their will:
Meaning force or oblige (someone) to do something:
Meaning compel or force (someone) to follow a particular course of action:
Meaning make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something:
Meaning make (something) necessary as a result or consequence:
Meaning need for a particular purpose:
Meaning ask authoritatively or brusquely:
Meaning compel (someone) to do something:
Meaning encourage someone to continue or succeed:
Meaning strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something:
Meaning make strong efforts to persuade or force (someone) to do something:
Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container):
Meaning operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle:
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:
Meaning give an incentive or encouragement to (someone):
Meaning stimulate or persuade (someone who is reluctant or slow) to do something:
Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:
Meaning encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behaviour):
Meaning cause someone to take a course of action:
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative:
Anagrams of impels
Words that rhyme with impels
Capels, antechapels, chapels, lapels, repels, stipels, scalpels, compels, stempels, propels, sapropels, appels, estoppels, lappels, rappels, carpels, curpels, Gospels, Kalispels, dispels, gospels, langspels, cupels, drupels, graupels, expels, reexpels
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