Usually means: Driven to act by pressure.
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  1. impelled: Merriam-Webster
  2. impelled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impelled: Collins English Dictionary
  4. impelled: Vocabulary.com
  5. Impelled, impelled: Wordnik
  6. impelled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. impelled: Wiktionary
  8. Impelled, impelled: Dictionary.com
  9. impelled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Impelled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. impelled: Rhymezone
  12. Impelled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. impelled: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. impelled: FreeDictionary.org
  15. impelled: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. impelled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impelled: Legal dictionary

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adjective:  urged or forced to action through moral pressure ("Felt impelled to take a stand against the issue")


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