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What does propel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word propel? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To cause to move in a certain direction.
  2. To make to arrive to a certain situation or result.
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Despite his slowish running, his bike speed was good enough to propel him into fourth place in the 45-49 age group.
They are weird stubby boats, and you have to do a lot more work to propel and keep them on a straight course through the water.
Seen through the door in the background, a team of black oarsmen propel the boat along the Nile.
At such moments nobility and strength of character propel us way beyond our means to be kind and helpful.
It was a prize, a brass ring, a suburban legend that, if true, would propel the average Stepford housewife to new heights of fame.
The Johns Hopkins team also delivered DNA into mice by using a so-called gene gun to propel small doses of the nanorods under the animals' skin.

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