0 to make someone feel that they must do something: --
1 to force someone to do something: --
[ + to infinitive ] When I see them eating, I feel impelled to eat, too.
If they do not, then this will impel us to seek other explanations.
The conditions in which the mentally ill were kept shocked him, and impelled him to take positive action.
The study of social context in developmental psychopathology is important not least because it impels us to reflect on the social institutions that manage psychopathology.
And so our curiosity impels us to explore the block's exterior.
Following an overview of the importance of oracy for learning, the article describes the importance of assessment, especially formative assessment, in impelling progress.
Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which they seemed impelled by a desperate fascination, they never returned.
However, two theoretical reasons impel us not to put much store in annual fixed-effects.
But what would impel a biological visual system to pose, let alone solve such a problem?