WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
-puls-, root.
- -puls- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "push;
drive.'' This meaning is found in such words as: compulsion, expulsion, impulse, impulsive, propulsion, pulsar, pulsation, pulse, repulse, repulsive.
'-puls-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):