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propel English

Meaning propel meaning

What does propel mean?
Definitions in simple English

propel Verb

— If you propel something, you move it in a certain direction. He used a paddle to propel the boat.

propel

— verb cause to move forward with force Steam propels this ship — verb (= move) give an incentive for action This moved me to sacrifice my career

Synonyms propel synonyms

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propel English » English

drive impel push thrust move shove actuate shoo pursue launch drive on chase hurl force fling throw prompt press motivate discharge advance transfer sling shoulder shift send forth send row ram project poke pitch pass paddle lob involve incite hustle elbow cast wag urge truck trigger off transport transit toss take away take stir

Topics propel topics

What do people use propel to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Carry

Throw
Physical actions Move something Take somewhere

Drive along

Conjugation propel conjugation

How do you conjugate propel?

propel · verb

Examples propel examples

How do I use propel in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Oh, propel me please, Jim.
My computations indicate that if we fly toward the sun, seek out its magnetic attraction, then pull away at full power, the whiplash will propel us into another time warp.
Oh, just one thing! I've got it up all right and it should be comparatively simple to propel it forward.
Well if the Quarks do use ultrasound to propel this craft.
Chief among these powers will be your sight your strength, your hearing your ability to propel yourself at almost limitless speed.
Then you will propel into the void.
And thereby you will propel mankind by a tiny, tiny rung upwards.
The turbo quadramatic transmission offers you the power and prestige to propel you well into the 21 st century.
Theoretically, it can propel a craft through the surveillance circle.
The passions we deplore havetaken them to the stars. and will propel themto a great destiny.
Those are cilia. They propel the paramecia.
See the way they propel themselves?
Anything you say is gonna propel her into a bacchian frenzy.
The inner winds propel you.
We need to aggressively propel them forward, because otherwise they would meet a cruel death in the swamp.
I think I'll propel the old pins down the road. Just in case. - Please, Squire.
My computations indicate that if we fly toward the sun, seek out its magnetism, then pull away at full power, the whiplash will propel us into another time warp.
My father, Irwin Baxter, is arming the nuclear engine that will propel the mighty Cyclops.
He's trying to get thrust to propel the craft into the air. Can't you see that?
Quite a simple game really, the chaps are in two teams of 15 each and they. use a jolly old pumpkin in the shape of an orange, now the object is. to propel the pumpkin as best you can, all the way to your opponent's goal.
So, what I needed was a way to propel one a distance of about 40 yards.
Properly channelled that energy could propel half your people out of the galaxy.
The passions we deplore have taken them to the stars and will propel them to a great destiny.
When the wings that support the bird propel it through the air it is the surrounding air's resistance that gives the dynamic lift this is the bird's loneliness and harmony.
He invented the basic components that propel, stabilize and guide the modern rocket.
Saturn's gravity will propel it on to Uranus and in this game of cosmic billiards, after Uranus it will plunge on past Neptune, leaving the solar system and becoming an interstellar spacecraft destined to wander forever the great ocean between the stars.
Now, with the help of Russian engineers, a technology designed to propel weapons of mass destruction will power the ship that will intercept the greatest threat our planet has ever faced.
If we were to enter one of the funnels just as that happened, we might be able to use those forces to propel us into normal space.
One of the things we latched onto for interplanetary travel was this idea of a big fusion explosion behind the backside of the spaceship that would propel it faster than anything we have on Earth.
After the assassination attempt, the opportunity presented itself to propel Kinsey onto the presidential ticket.
To the dreams that propel us.

News and current affairs

Michael Tilson Thomas in San Francisco, for example, has combined effective fundraising and artistic leadership to propel the San Francisco Symphony to the top rank of US orchestras.
But the rationale must be to get the world economy out of its current risky situation, not to propel us into yet another speculative bubble.
China's upcoming pro-consumption rebalancing implies a potential shift in FDI - away from manufacturing toward services - that could propel growth further.
If people are saving half their income, their investments in capital have the potential to propel the economy at a rapid pace.
It is about targeted microeconomic reforms that reduce or remove barriers to private investment, thereby encouraging the non-financial corporate sector to propel European GDP growth.
The Web is the fuel of the twenty-first century, and it will propel students of all ages, from all corners of the globe, into a successful future.
While it relies on profligate subsidies and cash handouts, Thaksinomics also banks on structural reforms to propel economic growth.
A rising nominal and real exchange rate can propel structural change; a weak-currency policy is a trap.
Jean Monnet, one of the EU's founding fathers, repeatedly returned to the notion that the urgency of emergency would propel integration.
For some observers, these factors were deemed sufficient to form the critical mass needed to propel the economy into escape velocity.
But that isn't enough to propel people from a tortilla factory to a software company, to create a broad middle class, and thus to assure social mobility.
Clearly, the Fed's objective is to increase bond prices, in the hope that lower long-term interest rates will propel corporate investment.
Initially, monetary union was supposed to propel Europe toward political union.
And in the 1990s, monetary union was considered likely to propel Europe to greater global prominence; today, the European economy is frequently in the world's headlines, but not in a good way.
Their mass mobilization helped propel Ahmedinejad to victory in 2005.
This has severely undermined the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacy, while hampering the kind of market-based competition that China's economy needs to propel the country to high-income status.
Reminiscent of development strategies prevalent in East Asia, Thaksin picked strategic niche industries to propel Thailand's economic expansion, focusing on automobiles, fashion, food, healthcare, and tourism.
All of this will propel us into a very different world, one that may well extend humans' life span by 10-30 years, presenting enormous opportunities, but also confronting us with fascinating and perplexing ethical, social, and legal issues.

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