Impetus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPETUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the force or energy with which a body moves
• something that makes a process or activity happen or happen more quickly
• incentive, impulse
• A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.
• Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.
• The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.
• a force that moves something along
• the act of applying force suddenly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an impelling force

Words related to IMPETUS

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Words that contain IMPETUS

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How to use IMPETUS in a sentence

• The events that followed so thickly were merely the consequences of causes which, once set in motion, soon attained an impetus that defied ordinary human control.
• She would not tell herself what gave her strength such impetus.
• It spun him over and over in the dust, yet as the impetus of the chestnut carried him far past, Cordova struggled to his feet and attempted to flee again.
• The very impetus of his fall he used to help him whirl to his feet, and as he rose he knew what he must do.
• The pursuers were close behind him, and both fired, the boat being so near that the impetus already given by the oars carried it hard against the shore.
• To pause now was to lose the precious impetus of the start.
• Cooperation among the white and black races received a decided impetus during the war.
• But when an impetus was given to instruction under the Tudors, copies of the alphabet and the Creed were added to such articles of sale, and this was the place to get them.
• The carriage was set in motion by a mere push, and, having received, this impetus, rolled with us down an inclined plane into a tunnel, which forms the entrance to the railroad.
• Hope had given him a flash of false strength, the impetus to move, and he must make the most of that gift.
• The epoch we have now entered is destined to impart a great impetus to this historic, this twofold process.
• And if the wheels were large they gave a greater fierceness to the impetus of the recoil, when the piece was fired.
• Taking a firm hold on the rope, he swung himself outward, giving his flight through space an added impetus by pushing with his right foot.
• I saw that in another moment, and with one impetus of frenzy more, I should be able to do nothing with him.
• It made Nevada a state and gave great impetus to the growth of San Francisco.
• Westward migration at this time was given an added impetus by the Oregon question.
• The added impetus of the instinct hastens the speed of the direction or supervision.
• Things were at a dead lock and stand still, until the so-called devotion gave an impetus to the movement.
• As she springs, you aid her by the impetus of your hand.
• If the lady be light, you must take care not to give her too much impetus in mounting.
• Mining enterprises have accordingly been carried on from ancient times, and they have now, with the advent of steam, acquired a fresh impetus.
• The reader has noted the fact that the first impetus was given to the place by the acts of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company.
• The first impetus was given by the plunder of Bengal, which, after the victories of Clive, flowed into the country in a broad stream for about thirty years.
• With this improvement, there was at the same time a marked impetus in Bible circulation.
• At the close of the war of 1812-15, a new impetus was given to everything throughout the South, and especially to education.
• Civilization received new impetus and a wave of Mohammedanism swept eastward, erecting the great kingdoms of Melle, the Songhay, Bornu, and the Hausa states.

Similar words containing PETU without suffix s and without prefix im

petunia9 tapetum11 petulant10 petunias10 petuntse10 petuntze19 tapetums12 impetuous13 impetuses13 perpetual13 petulance13 petulancy16 petuntses11 petuntzes20 perpetuals14 perpetuate14 perpetuity17 petulances14 petulantly15 impetuosity18 impetuously18 perpetuable17 perpetually18 perpetuance17 perpetuated16 perpetuates15 perpetuator15 petulancies15 perpetualism18 perpetualist16 perpetuality19 perpetuances18 perpetuating17 perpetuation16 perpetuators16 perpetuities16 impetuosities17 impetuousness17 perpetualisms19 perpetualists17 perpetuations17 perpetualities18 impetuousnesses19

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