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v. To ward off or keep away; drive back: repel insects.

v. To offer resistance to; fight against: repel an invasion.

v. To refuse to accept; reject: a company that was trying to repel a hostile takeover.

v. To turn away from; spurn.

v. To cause aversion or distaste in: Your rudeness repels everyone. See Synonyms at disgust. See Usage Note at repulse.

v. To be resistant to; be incapable of absorbing or mixing with: Oil repels water.

v. Physics To present an opposing force to; push back or away by a force: Electric charges of the same sign repel one another.

verb-intransitive. To offer a resistant force to something.

verb-intransitive. To cause aversion or distaste: behavior that repels.

v. To save (a shot)

v. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

v. To resist or oppose effectually.

verb-intransitive. To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

To drive back; force to return; check the advance of; repulse: as, to repel an assailant.

To encounter in any manner with effectual resistance; resist; oppose; reject: as, to repel an encroachment; to repel an argument.

To drive back or away: the opposite of attract. See repulsion.

Synonyms and Decline, Reject, etc. (see refuse), parry, ward off, defeat.

To act with force in opposition to force impressed; antagonize.

In medicine, to prevent such an afflux of fluids to any particular part as would render it tumid or swollen.

v. fill with distaste

v. reject outright and bluntly

v. be repellent to; cause aversion in

v. force or drive back

v. cause to move back by force or influence

"Poles of the same name repel each other; poles of unlike name attract each other."

attract   

repeling    repell    repelled    repellently    repellentness    repelling    repels   

scorn    turndown    reject    spurn    disdain    pooh-pooh    freeze off    fight    defend    fight down   

reject    pleas proponed and repelled   

repulse    repellent    repulsive    repulsion   

repelling    repelled   

refuse    reject    tu repulse    resist    oppose    repulse    rebuff    ward    rebut    fence   

Adel    Adele    Bel    Bell    Belle    Burrell    Cabell    Carmel    Cavell    Chanel