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# impel

«impel» in Mova's school dictionary: **to push or drive them to do something, as if they cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (impels, impelled, impelling)

### meaning for a pupil

To impel someone is to push or drive them to do something, as if they cannot stop themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a strong feeling or a curse drives a character to act

### examples

- Fear impelled him to run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impel/#x1)
- Hunger impelled the wolf to leave the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impel/#x2)
- Something impels the vampire to leave its grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impel/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.