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Definition
cause to move forward (to push or encourage)
- Phoebe's thin wails rose in the darkness, propelling Caroline across the asphalt and past the wide blank squares of light, to the automatic doors of the grocery store.p. 53.2
- For the rest of his life, he realized, he would be torn like this, aware of Phoebe's awkwardness, the difficulties she encountered in the world simply by being different, and yet propelled beyond all this by her direct and guileless love.p. 401.2
There are no more uses of "propel" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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