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impelled

/im-pel/US // ɪmˈpɛl //UK // (ɪmˈpɛl) //

被推动的,被推动,促使的,促使

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·pelled, im·pel·ling.

    • : to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
    • : to drive or cause to move onward; propel; impart motion to.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbprompt, incite

Examples

  • Humans in different places and times have felt impelled to overcome the limitations of pictures in communicating.

  • It seemed to me that I had scarcely closed my eyes when I dreamed that something impelled me to go to the window.

  • So many of the men who have sought the presidency seem impelled by a desire to compensate for something missing in themselves.

  • Now the GOP, impelled by ideology matched to calculation, is trying the same game again.

  • The country was impelled to act, not based on what was known, but what was feared.

  • But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.

  • A quick impulse that was somewhat spasmodic impelled her fingers to close in a sort of clutch upon his hand.

  • The characters which crowd forth from his brain are sustained and impelled by the same social waves which sustain and impel us.

  • The work which it does is performed by the hard substances that are impelled by the current, principally by the sand and pebbles.

  • As if impelled by the voice, Lawrence turned his head and looked into the blazing eyes of Billy.

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