propel

CEFRC1

/pɹəˈpɛl/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To push or drive something forward.
02
verb
Extra detail
To provide an impetus for motion or physical action; to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive or push forward.

Examples

Economic diversification will propel Algeria into the post-oil era.
Going all out like this is going to propel me right into an all-or-nothing struggle.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

To provide an impetus for nonphysical change; to cause to arrive to a certain situation or result.

In context

Algeria needs to propel its economy.
This tunnel assumed some measure of importance during the second world war, when it was used nightly as an air raid shelter for multiple unit electric trains which were propelled over the branch by a steam engine.
When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

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When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo G...
This tunnel assumed some measure of importance during the second world war, when it was used nightly as an air raid shelter for multiple unit electric trains which were propelled over the branch by a steam engine.
1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836
Primary mass relays can propel ships thousands of light years, often from one spiral arm of the galaxy to another.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mass Relays Codex entry
I can discern your nature and see that even without any arguments (logoi) from me it will propel you to what you say you are drawn towards,
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 265e
Black women helped propel Harris and president-elect Joe Biden to victory by elevating turnout in places like Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post

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From Middle English propellen (“drive out, expel”), from Latin propellō, from pro- (“forward”) and pellō (“to push, to move”).