Impel

Definitions: Impel

Impel

Verb

1. Urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate.

2. Cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship".

Date "impel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Impel \Im*pel"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Impelled; present participle verb or noun Impelling.]. (Websters 1913)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
IMPEL	English	Implementing Community Environmental Law	Public Administration, European Union
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Impel

Synonyms: force (v), propel (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impulse	Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug.
Motion	Put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize.
Motive	Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate.
Regression	Put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel; trundle; (set in rotation); expel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impel

English words defined with "impel": bear on ♦ exhort ♦ Hight ♦ press, push ♦ To thrust on, Trim of sails ♦ urge, urge on. (references)

Specialty definitions using "impel": Abridge ♦ Infusions, Intra-Arterial. (references)

Etymologies containing "impel": impulsion ♦ Retropulsive. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
US Declaration of Independence	1776	When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Minorities	Vietnam	The Government admits that one of the goals of resettlement is to impel the minorities to change from traditional swidden agricultural methods to sedentary agriculture. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Oliver Cromwell
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Placed in a situation every way so auspicious, motives of commanding force impel us, with sincere acknowledgment to Heaven and pure love to our country, to unite our efforts to preserve, prolong, and improve our immense advantages.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Impel" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Impel" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	69.23%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)	30.77%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

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Language		Translations for "impel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		dryf (actuate, be adrift, chase, drift, drive, drive on, float, shoo, swim), aandrywe (actuate, be, be washed ashore, chase, drive, drive on, shoo), aandryf (actuate, be, be washed ashore, chase, drive, drive on, shoo). (various references)

Albanian		shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie). (various references)

Arabic		‏فرض (assess, commit, direct, enforcement, enjoin, force, impose, imposition, oblige, order, predicate, prescription, put, require), ‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏سير (course, file, foot, going, march, motion, pan, pass, procession, progress, propel, running, thong, walk), ‏إضطر (be coerced, be compelled, be constrained, be forced, be obliged, coerce, compel, force, have, have to, obligate, oblige), ‏أكرهه على (make), ‏دفع على. (various references)

Bulgarian		тласкам (dash, drive, fillip, guide, hustle, impact, jerk, propel, push, thrust), карам (auto, cart, cause, drive, get along, have, keep, lead, make, move, oar, occasion, pilot, propel, render, roll along, run, sail, serve, set, set off, start, urge on, wheel), насъсквам (hound on, prod, stimulate, work up), предвижвам (help along), подтиквам (actuate, fillip, goad, help forward, hypo, incite, inspire, invigorate, invite, move, prod, prompt, provoke, resolve, spur, stir up, urge on), движа (move, ply, run, stir, work). (various references)

Chinese		推進 , 推动 (impelled, impelling, impetus, impulsion). (various references)

Czech		pohánìt (actuate, criticize, hustle, insult, propel, push), podnìcovat (actuate, foment, incite, instigate, prod, promote, stimulate), nutit (constrain, drive, hustle, oblige, press), nabádat (admonish, encourage, exhort, instigate, spur, urge). (various references)

Dutch		stuwen (bar, obstruct, stow, stowage, stowing, to brace, to secure, to stow). (various references)

Esperanto		instigi (encourage, instigate, spur on, stimulate, urge), impulsi, peli (chase, drive, drive on, shoo). (various references)

Faeroese		reka (be adrift, chase, drift, drive, drive on, flow, shoo), elva (abet, advance, encourage, instigate, spur on, stimulate, suggest, urge), eggja til (abet, encourage, instigate, spur on, stimulate, urge). (various references)

Farsi		مجبورساختن , وادارکردن (Compel, Enforce, Have, Induce, Instigate, Oblige, Persuade), بران داشتن (Persuade). (various references)

Finnish		yllyttää (abet, egg on, encourage, incite, instigate, spur on, stimulate, urge), karkottaa (chase, deport, dispel, drive, drive away, drive on, expel, shoo, turn out). (various references)

French		pousser, pourchasser, inciter, faire avancer. (various references)

Frisian		oanwakkerje (abet, encourage, instigate, spur on, stimulate, urge), oantrune (abet, encourage, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), oantrúnje (abet, encourage, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), oanhysje (abet, cheer, encourage, excite, fire, incite, inspire, instigate, provoke, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), oanfjurje (abet, cheer, encourage, fire, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), oanfiterje (abet, cheer, encourage, fire, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), oandriuwe (actuate, chase, drive, drive on, shoo), driuwe (chase, drive, drive on, shoo). (various references)

German		treiben (battue, be adrift, be up to, beat, blowing, bring, budding, carry on, chase, commit, create, cupellation, do, drift, drive, drive on, drove, droving, enchase, exertion of pressure, float, force, hustle and bustle, jack up, leaven, make, make rise, move, production, propel, pursue, push, push out, put forth, put out, rush, shoo, shooting, sprout, sprouting, stretching, swim, swirling, throw out, thrust, to beat, to drive, to enchase, trailing, urge, work, wreak), antreiben (abet, actuate, drive, encourage, fan, fire, force, goad, hurry, hurry on, inspire, instigate, move, operate, power, propel, push, speed, speed up, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge, urge on, wash ashore, wash up, whip on, whip up). (various references)

Greek		παρακινώ (abet, actuate, egg on, exhort, incite, induce, motivate, prod, prompt, spur, stimulate, urge), παροτρύνω (coax, exhort, goad, promote, urge), ωθώ (actuate, motivate, prompt, push, shove, thrust), αναγκάζω (bludgeon, coerce, compel, constrain, necessitate, obligate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"מריץ (drive, encourage, goad, hearten, instigate, spirit, spur, stimulate, stir up, tone up, urge), ל�"� יע (activate, disturb, drive, induce, motivate, prompt, propel, set in motion, stir, urge), ל�"חוף (drive, jog, jostle, lunge, push, shove, thrust, urge). (various references)

Hungarian		hajt (drive, propel, sprout, stimulate, to actuate, to chase, to cook, to drift, to gun for, to impel, to pole, to propel, to run heel, to stool, to tear ass, to tool along, to tool down), ösztökél (egg on, instigate, stimulate, to edge on, to egg on, to egg sy on to do sg, to egg sy to do sg, to foment, to impel, to jack up, to prod, to spur, to stimulate, urge), ûz (chase, drive, drive on, pursue, shoo). (various references)

Italian		incitare (abet, animate, egg, embolden, excite, goad, hound, incite, lash, prompt, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, sting, stir, stir up, tempt), spingere (blow, crowd, drive, enchase, exertion of pressure, float, go, hustle, induce, jog, jostle, perform, poke, production, prompt, propel, push, rush, shove, slide, thrust, to press, to push, to rush, urge, wheel, wreak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		駆る (to drive car, to impel, to spur on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かる (to borrow, to buy on credit, to clip, to cut, to drive, to harvest, to have a loan, to hire, to hunt, to impel, to mow, to prune, to reap, to rent, to shear, to spur on, to trim). (various references)

Norwegian		tilskynde, drive fram. (various references)

Pig Latin		impelay.(various references)

Portuguese		incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, egg on, encourage, excite, goad, hallow, incite, instigate, instigation, move, prod, prompt, prompting, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stimulate, stir up, to prompt, urge), impelir (drift, drive, encourage, exertion of pressure, instigate, production, prompt, push, rush, shove, spur on, stimulate, thrust, urge). (various references)

Romanian		impulsiona (quicken). (various references)

Russian		приводить в движение (move), принуждать (bludgeon, coerce, constrain, enforce, oblige). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		terati napred, prisiliti (compel, force), goniti (bay, chase, chevy, follow, hunt, hunt for, prosecute, pursue). (various references)

Spanish		incitar (abet, cheer, encourage, fan, fire, incite, inciter, inspire, instigate, prompting, provoke, put up, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, to prompt, urge, urge on), espolear (abet, encourage, incite, instigate, prick, rouse, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge), animar (abet, animate, brighten up, brisk, buck up, cheer, embolden, encourage, enliven, fan, fire, hearten, inspire, inspirit, instigate, jazz, lift, liven, liven up, pep up, perk up, pull for, reman, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge, urge on), inpulsar (abet, encourage, instigate, spur on, stimulate, urge). (various references)

Swedish		driva (actuate, bank, carry on, caulk, chase, drift, drive, drive on, force, jest, operate, power, push, set on, shoo, work), tvinga (bulldoze, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, drive, enforce, force, hustle, impose, oblige). (various references)

Turkish		itmek (foil, heft, hustle, jog, propel, push, repel, repulse, shove, thrust), zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impose, impress, lean upon, obligate, outrage, press, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, stampede, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, urge, worry, wrest), yöneltmek (aim, destine, direct, level, Orient, orientate, start, turn), harekete geçirmek (activate, actuate, arouse, deploy, edge on, Energize, fillip, give a fillip to, prompt, rally, set going, set in motion, spark, whack up). (various references)

Ukranian		спонукати (abet, actuate, cause, excite, impulse, induce, motivate, motive, prick, prod, prompt, provoke, push on, rouse, set off, spur, urge), просувати (advantage, carry forward, farther, further, help along, help forward, promote, push), приводити в рух (actuate, gear, operate, work). (various references)

Welsh		hyrddio (hurl). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	concitant, concitantem, concitantur, concitasti, concitat, concitata, concitate, concitati, concitatus, concitaverit, concitaverunt, concitavit, concitetur, concito, impello impuli impulsum, inpellat, inpellens, inpellentur, inpelleris, inpulerit, inpulit, inpulsus, mina, minabamur, minabant, minabatur, minabit, minantes, minas, minasset, minatur, minavit, minor, salamina. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	afysan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "impel": impelled, impeller, impellers, impelling, impellor, impellors, impels. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Impel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dimpal, empel, empl, imeal, imel, impa, impail, impak, impal, impe, impec, impell, impelt, impen, impet, impfen, impid, impl, implu, Impney, impo, impoi, impol, Inell, innel, inpel, Inpex, inpul, ipl, Ipma, ipol, Ippel, Kimpel, mixel, Mizell, nimple, pimpel, pinpel, wimpel, Zipfel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "impel" (pronounced i'mpe"l)
4	-m p e" l	compel.
3	-p e" l	dispel, expel, lapel, misspell, propel, repel, spell.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-p"
	-1 letter: lime, limp, lipe, mile, pile, plie.
	-2 letters: elm, imp, lei, lie, lip, mel, mil, pie.
	-3 letters: el, em, li, me, mi, pe, pi.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-p"
	+1 letter: dimple, impale, impels, limped, limper, limpet, megilp, pileum, pimple, prelim, rimple, simple, wimple.
	+2 letters: compile, crimple, dimpled, dimples, emptily, glimpse, impaled, impaler, impales, impanel, impearl, imperil, implead, implied, implies, implode, implore, impulse, lempira, limpers, limpest, limpets, limpsey, lumpier, maniple, maplike, megilph, megilps, mispled, palmier, pimpled, pimples, plenism, plumier, polemic, prelims, primely, rimpled, rimples, simpler, simples, simplex, wimpled, wimples.
	+3 letters: bedimple, bepimple, clumpier, compiled, compiler, compiles, complice, complied, complier, complies, compline, crimpled, crimples, dimplier, displume, empaling, episomal, glimpsed, glimpser, glimpses, glumpier, hemplike, impalers, impanels, impearls, impelled, impeller, impellor, imperial, imperils, impleads, impledge, imploded, implodes, implored, implorer, implores, impolite, impulsed, impulses, impurely, lempiras, limpness, limpsier, liposome, lumpiest, manciple, maniples, megilphs, milepost, milleped, milliped, misplace, misplead, misspell, misspelt, multiped, multiple, palmiest, palmlike, peculium, pemoline, periblem, philomel, picomole, pimplier, playtime, plenisms, plimsole, plumeria, plumiest, plumiped, plumlike, plummier, polemics, polemist, polemize, prelimit, primeval, proemial, pumplike, rumplier, semplice, simplest, splenium, tumpline.
	+4 letters: amphibole, amplidyne, amplified, amplifier, amplifies, amplitude, bedimpled, bedimples, bepimpled, bepimples, campanile, clumpiest, compilers, complices, compliers, complines, crumplier, depluming, dimpliest, diplomaed, diplomate, displumed, displumes, eclampsia, eclamptic, empirical, emplacing, emplaning, employing, epidermal, exampling, exemplify, glimpsers, glumpiest, homophile, impaneled, impearled, impellers, impelling, impellors, imperials, imperiled, implanted, implanter, impleaded, impledged, impledges, implement, implicate, implorers, implosive, impulsive, imputable, limpsiest, liposomes, lumpiness, manciples, micropyle, mileposts, millepeds, millipede, millipeds, misemploy, misplaced, misplaces, misplayed, mispleads, misspells, multipage, multipeds, multiples, multiplet, multiplex, multipole, multistep, mycophile, nemophila, palmitate, pemolines, penultima, periblems, perilymph, philomels, phlegmier, picomoles, piecemeal, pimpernel, pimpliest, plainsmen, playtimes, plexiform, plimsoles, plumerias, plumipeds, plummiest, polemical, polemists, polemized, polemizes, policeman, policemen, polyamide, polyamine, polymeric, pommeling, prelimits, prolamine, puerilism, pummeling, recompile, reimplant, reptilium, rumpliest, simpleton, simplexes, simplices, slimpsier, spoilsmen, tumplines, upclimbed, verapamil.
	+5 letters: accomplice, alphameric, amphiboles, amphiphile, amplidynes, amplifiers, amplitudes, bedimpling, bepimpling, biopolymer, bipedalism, campaniles, clomiphene, compatible, compelling, complained, complainer, completing, completion, completist, completive, complexify, complexing, complexion, complexity, compliance, complicate, compliment, compulsive, crumpliest, delphinium, diplomates, eclampsias, empaneling, empurpling, epidemical, epididymal, epilimnion, episomally, epithelium, epitomical, hemiplegia, hemiplegic, hemophilia, hemophilic, impalement, impalpable, impaneling, impanelled, impartible, impassable, impassible, impearling, impeccable, impeccably, imperially, imperiling, imperilled, impersonal, implacable, implanters, impleading, impledging, implements, implicated, implicates, implosives, impolicies, impolitely, importable, impossible, impotently, improbable, improperly, improvable, impudently, impugnable, incomplete, limitrophe, limpidness, limpnesses, lumpfishes, lymphokine, manipulate, maxilliped, metaplasia, metropolis, micropyles, millipedes, misapplied, misapplies, misdevelop, misemploys, misplanned, misplanted, mispleaded, misspelled, monopolies, monopolise, monopolize, multipaned, multiphase, multipiece, multiplets, multiplied, multiplier, multiplies, multipower, multispeed, mycophiles, nemophilas, oversimple, oversimply, palimonies, palimpsest, palindrome, palmitates, parimutuel, parliament, pedimental, penultimas, perilymphs, permillage, phlegmatic, phlegmiest, pilgrimage, pimpernels, pimpmobile, planimeter, plumberies, plummeting, plumpening, plyometric, polemicist, polemicize, polemizing, polemonium, polyamides, polyamines, polygamies, polygamize, polymerise, polymerism, polymerize, polysemies, polytheism, pommelling, pomologies, prelimited, premarital, premaxilla, premedical, premolding, primevally, proclaimed, proclaimer, prolamines, psalmodies, psalterium, puerilisms, pummelling, recompiled, recompiles, reimplants, replumbing, resampling, semipostal, semipublic, shrimplike, simpleness, simpletons, simplified, simplifier, simplifies, slimpsiest, slipformed, slipstream, specialism, spermatial, stepfamily, temptingly, thermopile, trampoline, verapamils.
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