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Synonyms:
- jerks, lobs, catapults, compels, pokes, urges, dragoons, galvanizes, knocks, launches, chucks, projects, hijacks, flicks, shoves, moves, flings, pushes, shoots, dictates, nags, bumps, browbeats, foments, induces, pitches, prompts, bunts, forces, pressures, mandates, nudges, butts, goads, jolts, bulldozes, punches, prods, instigates, sparks, intimidates, shunts, obliges, causes, inspires, stimulates, propels, magnetizes, hurls, cants, throws, provokes, strikes, drives, slings, coerces, tosses, precipitates, casts, stresses, rams, pelts, motivates, triggers, thrusts, heaves, bowls, energizes, bullies, presses, hastens, encourages, jostles, hurtles, ferments, incites, daunts, fires, jogs, entices
Examples:
- - Whether it was that natural pride of prowess which oft impels his countrymen to perseverance and daring deeds,- whether it was that, or whether it arose from a sterner power of endurance,- certain it is that Colin kept his seat longer than either of his predecessors. - "The Boy Slaves", Mayne Reid
- - Thus the law of gravitation, with all the conditions it implies, and the laws of light, are demonstrated to be in operation in regions incalculably remote; and just so far as the physical constitution of the other planets of our system can be either traced, or reasonably conjectured, it appears that, amid great diversities of constitution, the same great principles prevail in all; and therefore our further conjecture concerning the existence of sentient and rational life in other worlds is borne out by every sort of analogy, abstract and physical; and this same rule of analogy impels us to suppose that rational and moral agents, in whatever world found, and whatever diversity of form may distinguish them, would be such that we should soon feel at home in their society, and able to confer with them, to communicate knowledge to them, and to receive knowledge from them. - "Moon Lore", Timothy Harley
- - This savage desire for revenge is the second phase of " jealousy," when women are guarded like other property, encroachment on which impels the owner to angry retaliation either on the thief or on the wife who has become his accomplice. - "Primitive Love and Love-Stories", Henry Theophilus Finck
