| compulsion | (noun) using force to cause something to occur | Synonyms: coercion |
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| (noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: obsession |
| (noun) an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid | Synonyms: irresistible impulse |
| compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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| (adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
| (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
| compulsively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: obsessionally, obsessively |
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| compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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| compulsorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: mandatorily, obligatorily |
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| compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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| expulsion | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection |
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| (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance |
| (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: extrusion |
| impulse | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
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| (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: momentum |
| (noun) the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber | Synonyms: nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse |
| (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: pulsation, pulse, pulsing |
| (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: caprice, whim |
| (noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: urge |
| impulsion | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impetus, impulse |
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| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: drift, impetus |
| impulsive | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, whimsical |
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| (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: driving |
| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway |
| (adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: unprompted |
| (adjective) without forethought | - |
| impulsively | (adverb) in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions | Synonyms: impetuously |
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| impulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection | - |
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| propulsion | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: actuation |
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| (noun) a propelling force | - |
| propulsive | (adjective) having the power to propel | - |
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| (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propelling |
| pulsar | (noun) a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation | - |
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| pulsate | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulse |
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| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulse, throb |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, quiver |
| pulsation | (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: impulse, pulse, pulsing |
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| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulse |
| (noun) a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity | - |
| pulse | (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, heartbeat, pulsation |
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| (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulsing |
| (noun) edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.) | - |
| (noun) the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health | Synonyms: heart rate, pulse rate |
| (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulsate |
| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, throb |
| (verb) drive by or as if by pulsation | - |
| pulseless | (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: breathless, inanimate |
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| pulsing | (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulse |
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| repulse | (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: rebuff, snub |
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| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel |
| (verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repel |
| repulsion | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: standoff |
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| (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, revulsion |
| (noun) the force by which bodies repel one another | Synonyms: repulsive force |
| repulsive | (adjective) possessing the ability to repel | - |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant |
| (adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: hideous |
| repulsively | (adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: abominably, detestably, odiously |
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| repulsiveness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| repulsor | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsorlift, repulsorlift engine |
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| (noun) A repulsor is either one of two drives located in the gauntlets of Iron Man's armor; they have been referred to as being magnetic, a blast of charged particles, and as a force beam. | - |
| repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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