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IMPEL
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Traducere în limba română
impel verb tranzitiv
1. a împinge, a pune in mişcare, a activ(iz)a.
2. a împinge înainte, a forţa, a face să înainteze.
3. (to) a îndemna, a provoca; a determina (la,să); a sili, a constrânge (la, să).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“I think that he is a better man than you are,” I answered, impelled, somehow, with a desire to draw upon myself a portion of the wrath I felt was about to break upon his head.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
Every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels, but it was the will of the gods that this should not be; and behind the will, to enforce it, was the whip of cariboo-gut with its biting thirty-foot lash.
(White Fang, de Jack London)