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repel English

Meaning repel meaning

What does repel mean?
Definitions in simple English

repel Verb

— If you repel something, then you push it away or make it go away from something.

repel

— verb (= push back, beat back) cause to move back by force or influence repel the enemy push back the urge to smoke beat back the invaders — verb (= fight off, rebuff, drive back) force or drive back repel the attacker fight off the onslaught rebuff the attack — verb be repellent to; cause aversion in — verb (= snub) reject outright and bluntly She snubbed his proposal — verb (= disgust) fill with distaste This spoilt food disgusts me

Synonyms repel synonyms

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repel English » English

repulse reject disgust drive away push back drive back refuse ward off spurn revolt rebuff push away parry fight off resist remove expel exclude dismiss beat back sicken send back resend relay nauseate force back fend off drive disavow decline chase away beat off withhold turn away tool take away snub shun shake off repudiate repress refuse to accept rebut rebuke oppose look askance at gross out get rid of fend emboss

Topics repel topics

What do people use repel to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Dislike
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Push

  • What words refer to causing something to move away from you without touching it?
    repel

Conjugation repel conjugation

How do you conjugate repel?

repel · verb

Examples repel examples

How do I use repel in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I call the living, I mourn the dead, I repel lightning.
There are plants that repel insects.

Movie subtitles

I'm ready to repel all boarders.
Direct all fighter aircraft to discontinue mission and proceed to repel kamikaze attack on the fleet.
Divert all fighters from present missions to repel kamikaze attack on the fleet.
Proceed at once to point X-ray to repel kamikaze attack on fleet.
Prepare to repel attack while carrying out firefighting procedures.
I might agree to your preposterous suggestion, Mr. Hyde were it not for the fact that you utterly repel me.
Like poles repel, eh?
We must position them to repel an invasion.
That should repel any boarders!
Katarina and I are trying to repel any type of boarders.
Prepare to repel boarders!
Our forward tractor beams, adjust to repel.
You see, Jamie, opposite poles attract and the same poles repel. Try it.
Under the banner of the Mother of God, they tried to repel the enemy soldiers, conquer the heretics, eradicate foreign influences.
If he hears anything obscene, he'll naturally repel it.
Charge your cannon and stand ready to repel attack.
Walked home in advanced the bishop's page brashly and who to repel, the king's cautious page.
Stand by to repel boarders!
Use emergency power and repel attack.
Do I repel you?
Prepared to repel boarders.
We were hoping you could teach us on how to repel it.
I always thought being blind would repel most women.
Repel this force that comes from evil. Fight her.
With them, we will repel any attacks and establish a safe base of operations.
If I repel you, you repel me too.
You never repel me.
I can't hear you, you repel me!
You repel me!
Like repels like in electricity, Doctor, and so we attempted to repel the image in the mirrors wherever we directed.
You see, Jamie, opposite poles attract and the same poles repel.
Asked about the signs I made, I eluded the question, saying it was to repel Satan. That lasted a year and then faded away.

News and current affairs

These nets cover people while they sleep, and repel or kill the mosquitoes, which tend to bite during the night.
In the justification of armed conflict, everyone agrees that the defending state may use all necessary force to repel an aggressor.
Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible.
In 2006, after roughly 50 million preventable deaths, the United Nations' World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed the use of DDT to kill and repel Anopheles mosquitoes.
The problem is that fusion involves joining two positively charged nuclei - and, as basic science shows, same-sign charges repel each other.

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