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Drive or push forward
Answer for the clue "Drive or push forward ", 6 letters:
propel
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship" [syn: impel ] give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate , actuate , move , prompt , incite ] [also: propelling , propelled ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to drive away, expel," from Latin propellere "push forward, drive forward, drive forth; move, impel," from pro- "forward" (see pro- ) + pellere "to push, drive" (see pulse (n.1)). Meaning "to drive onward, cause to move forward" is from 1650s. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propel \Pro*pel"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Propelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Propelling .] [L. propellere, propulsum; pro forward + pellere to drive. See Pulse a beating.] To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cause to move in a certain direction. 2 To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.
Usage examples of propel.
They had failed to anticipate the radical fervor with which an entire stratum of privileged intellectuals would attempt to propel the American revolution beyond the boundaries of bourgeois democracy.
It propelled Mark through the batwing doors and into the hitching rail.
The weary tendons propelling him caught and skipped like frayed cables, one excruciating step after another.
Tweed propelled the little man toward a hydrofoil bobbing alongside the nearby wharf.
When Mamo comes in and switches on a lamp, she is startled by a young body propelled forward off the wall like a stone from a sling.
McCoy repeated and, taking him by the other arm, he and Uhura propelled Maslin to his tent.
As the barrel of the pistol rose towards her, Deb made a small and breathy noise, not a scream but saturated in fear, and Wimbarton let out a squawk, propelling the mountebank across the room with an almighty shove.
As I propelled the car at fifty miles an hour along the open deck of the overpass Vaughan arched his back and lifted the young woman into the full glare of the headlamps behind us.
The thought of letting Littel fall back into the hands of Palle and his company was propelling him along at new found speed.
The clean-cut, mostly Spanish players strapped a basketlike cesta on their arm and propelled a hard ball, the pelota, at their opponents.
Most of them were biremes, and there were several penteconters, open galleys with decks fore and aft and propelled by fifty oars as well as sails.
The peristaltic field seized him at once, and propelled him forward while he lay back luxuriously, watching his surroundings.
Regard for rank and riches propelled the Marquess of Rockingham and the Duke of Grafton to the premiership and the Duke of Richmond to office as Secretary of State in the 1760s.
Lizzie, protesting, to her feet, and propelled her toward the circle of dancers.
As her tiny holding cell propelled itself from the rammer toward one of the intimidating warglobes, Tasia pondered the depth of the trouble that the Terran Hanseatic League was in.