Word Meanings - PROPEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPEL)

• Advance Propel
• elevate
• promote
• further
• lend
• propagate
• progress
• increase
• prosper
• rise
• Launch
• Propel
• hurl
• embark
• expatiate
• enlarge
• Project Throw
• cast
• propel
• shoot
• discharge
• propound
• intend
• forecast
• jut
• extend
• reach
• bulge
• stand out
• Push
• Press
• drive
• impel
• shove
• press against
• butt
• thrust
• urge
• expedite
• accelerate
• reduce
• Throw
• Fling
• toss
• project

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROPEL)

• Relax
• inhibit
• persuade
• entice
• allure
• solicit
• touch
• skim
• graze
• free
• liberate
• ease
• avoid
• relieve
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to PROPEL)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• FLET
  Skimmed.
• FLEAMY
  Bloody; clotted. Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.
• FLUENCE
  Fluency. Milton.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• DEFLUOUS
  Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.