Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cause to move forward or onward. See Synonyms at push.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To drive forward; move or cause to move on; urge or press onward by force.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move
WordNet 3.0
- v. give an incentive for action
- v. cause to move forward with force
Etymologies
- Historically (late Middle English) meant "expel, drive out". From Latin propellō, from pro- "forward" and pellō ("push, move"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English propellen, from Latin prōpellere : prō-, forward; see pro-1 + pellere, to drive; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If you open up the tools of social media and are willing to be transparent with your customers, they will help you spread the word and propel your business.”
The Wall Street Journal: Debate: Does Social Media Deliver Results for Small Businesses?
“Now since the imparting of the supremely Divine mysteries to the man initiated is the head and tail of every initiation, naturally then the Hierarchical judgment hit upon an appellation propel to it, from the truth of the facts.”
“Mike: apparently you guys didnt do your research. i hear the propel is a great phone. most sites give it around a 4 / 5 ... cybrpunk: Unfortunately, it seems the coupon no longer works.”
“White House officials said the bill helped "propel" the company's recent expansion.”
“They're some of the best in the SEC, and it really does kind of propel us into the next week and make us feel like we are a great team.”
“When you're in a transitional year, a lot of things have to go right for you early to get it going, to get that momentum that you need to kind of propel you and the things that you're trying to instill.”
HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
“T-shirts in Global English carry all kinds of messages, from the tame, and even quasi-meaningless, to the incendiary, but the vast majority of them for the moment propel branding campaigns of one form or another, whether I ♥ NY, , or a more homespun declaration, such as this one created by an international outfit representing language teachers: “I speak Global English.””
“Her strength with Iowa's evangelical and tea-party contingents could hurt Pawlenty and others who need a win in the early caucuses to propel their campaigns past Romney's.”
The Wall Street Journal: This Week: GOP Debate, Greek Respite, RIM Trouble
“The explosion would propel the bullet down the tube at a thousand feet per second, smashing it into the stack of uranium disks at the bottom.”
“He clawed at the ties around her neck, succeeding at last in ripping the ribbon from the material and allowing the heavy cloak to fall away as he kicked his legs to propel them back up once more.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘propel’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Groceries
strawberries, baby spinach, black beans, cinnamon, oranges, apples, fstg multigrain t..., olive oil, simply orange juice, tomato sauce, wholly guacamole, salt sense and 115 more...
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Words from "Pearls Before Breakfast"
nondescript, shrewd, seed money, bureaucrat, indeterminate, fungible, cupidity, banal, grandeur, utilitarian, buffer, ecstatic and 123 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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What Do You Mean #
get these dude
Irresolute, Founder, Barricade, Embellish, Avid, Raucous, Futile, punctilious, stark, trammel, interdict, solitious and 97 more...
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"Drive" Verbs
drive, ramble, tour, commute, advance, cruise, pilot, helm, propel, operate, coast, steer and 19 more...
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Action Verbs
snatch, skitter, skewer, splay, retch, scamper, scurry, amble, amble, bound, canter, dart and 63 more...
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vocab set 4
acknowledge, advocate, confrontation, equality, foster, indictment, intend, mentality, militant, naive, pessimistic, pious and 8 more...
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sunsister's Words
family, propel, sling, bring, sweetness, reach, forward, process
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suprabha
name for suprabha
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Advance (verb)
Words related advance (verb).
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