propulse

See also: propulsé

English

Etymology

Latin propulso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹəˈpʌls/
  • Rhymes: -ʌls

Verb

propulse (third-person singular simple present propulses, present participle propulsing, simple past and past participle propulsed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To repel; to drive off or away.
    • 1550, Edward Halle, The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke:
      all succours were clerely estopped and propulsed from them
  2. (transitive) To propel; to drive forward.

References

French

Verb

propulse

  1. inflection of propulser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

propulse

  1. third-person singular past historic of propellere

Etymology 2

Participle

propulse f pl

  1. feminine plural of propulso

Latin

Participle

prōpulse

  1. vocative masculine singular of prōpulsus

Portuguese

Verb

propulse

  1. inflection of propulsar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

propulse

  1. inflection of propulsar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative