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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
impel /ɪmˈpɛl/

▶verb (impels, impelling, impelled) force or urge to do something.

■ drive forward.

– origin ME: from L. impellere, from in- ‘towards’ + pellere ‘to drive’.

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