It was hunger that impelled him to crime.
Source: tatoeba (20080)
Impelled
//ɪmˈpɛld//
Synonyms for "impelled" (9 found)
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The wind and tide impelled the ship to the shore.
Source: tatoeba (319690)
It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. ... Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.
Source: tatoeba (690959)
"This idea accompanied Esperanto from the first moment of its birth until the present time. It impelled the author of Esperanto when he was still a little child."
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