Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To repel; drive off; keep away.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To repel; to drive off or away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
repel ; todrive off or away.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Il semble que l'internet propulse simultanément les gens dans deux directions différentes.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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Now the better to represse _fumes_ and propulse vapours fro {m} the Brain, it shalbe excelle {n} t good after Supper to chaw w {i} t {h} the teeth (the mouth being shut) a few graynes of Coriander first stieped in veneiger wherin Maiora {m} hath bin decocted, & the {n} thinly crusted or couered ouer w {i} t {h} Sugar.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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:) I admit that it would be a hell of a freaky place on earth if everybody would be hairless, but i think of the economy that would come from it, could propulse our existance trought outerpsace in less than a decade.
Rob Cottingham 2009
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