impel
verb (used with object)
to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
impels
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present tense formof impel (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It impels a creature who feels it to seek out much-needed water much more powerfully than any nonconscious mechanism could.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
What is it that impels Scarry to go there?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022
Not just because it inspires, but also because it impels.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
As for Judith Light, who receives star billing, my belief in truth in advertising impels me to tell you that her scenery-chewing turn begins only after we’ve settled back into our seats after intermission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2017
It is this that impels us to form the notion of substance, the source of which is not different from that of the modern ideas relative to the conservation of energy.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
