impel
verb
[ ɪmˈpɛl ]
• drive, force, or urge (someone) to do something.
• "financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures"
Similar:
force,
compel,
constrain,
oblige,
necessitate,
require,
demand,
make,
urge,
exhort,
press,
apply pressure,
pressure,
pressurize,
drive,
push,
spur,
prod,
goad,
incite,
prompt,
persuade,
inspire,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘propel’): from Latin impellere, from in- ‘towards’ + pellere ‘to drive’.
