propulse

See also: propulsé

English

Etymology

Latin propulso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpʌls/

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

• “propulse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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