propulse

To repel; to drive off or away.

Verb

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

Origin

From Latin propulso.

Forms

propulses propulsing propulsed