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Definition of repel in English: repelverbrepels, repelling, repelled rɪˈpɛlrəˈpɛl [with object]1Drive or force (an attack or attacker) back or away. government units sought to repel the rebels Example sentencesExamples - As the indigenous people in the video game, you're tasked with repelling the invaders and driving them back into the sea.
- Furthermore, if the lifeboat owner, Jones, is being aggressed against by Smith, and has the right to prosecute Smith later on, he therefore also has the right to use force to repel Smith's aggression on the spot.
- If these levels undergo and repel attacks, they instill even more confidence in the traders who've defended the barrier and, as such, are likely to generate strong profitable countermoves.
- Naturally Earth repels the attackers and defeats them just before Mars implodes.
- McNamara and Blight argue that the U.S. should pledge not to use force unilaterally except to repel an attack, forgoing sovereign rights in favor of the collective security of a multilateral organization.
- With mounting despair, he makes plans to repel the inevitable onslaught.
- The site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground, and I believe they actually had to repel a few Indian attacks as they were building it.
- It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders.
- Lt. Lane had never been required to repel any kind of onslaught since he'd taken command, but he was a well-trained Federation officer and had a masterful knowledge of all the defense tactics at his disposal.
- They manage to defend themselves and repel the androids that have attacked them.
- As time passes with the city's inhabitants weakening due to lack of food and the Mahdi's forces isolating the city, Gordon prepares Khartoum to repel invasion, all the time still hopeful of British intervention.
- Finally his regiment successfully repels a charge by the enemy, and Henry feels relief and elation at his feeling of success.
- In the film's climactic sequence, she turns into a Ninja fighter who repels the attacks of a group of dancing Israeli sharpshooters.
- Later on, after the invading French army has been repelled, Lear and Cordelia have been taken captive and Edmund gives these chilling words to his captain.
- In the physical world, once an attacker is repelled, you follow up with counterattack.
- Canevaro figured his team's quick response repelled the attackers and saved lives.
- He doesn't have the build for the Jackie Chan stunts he uses to repel the onslaught of his friends in crime-fighting, and he doesn't bear himself with heroic presence.
- Throughout the entire federation campaign, a couple of torpedo turrets were capable of repelling every attack the enemy mounted.
- This leads to actually repelling waves of enemy soldiers and tanks that roll out of the forest towards you.
- Peters is hard at work repelling the attackers, thrilled, he claims, to be a contrarian again.
Synonyms fight off, repulse, drive back/away, put to flight, force back, beat back, push back, thrust back hold off, ward off, fend off, stand off, stave off, parry, keep at bay, keep at arm's length foil, check, frustrate British see off informal send packing archaic rebut - 1.1 (of a magnetic pole or electric field) force (something similarly magnetized or charged) away from itself.
electrically charged objects attract or repel one another no object like poles repel and unlike poles attract Example sentencesExamples - It repels itself from the magnet it was once attracted to.
- Many everyday objects, including water and wood, are weakly diamagnetic - that is, they're repelled by magnetic fields.
- 1.2 (of a substance) resist mixing with or be impervious to (another substance)
boots with good-quality leather uppers to repel moisture Example sentencesExamples - A young scientist invents a material that is indestructible and repels dirt.
- The essence of Senefelder's discovery was that if the stone is written on with a grease-based ink and then wetted, the ink will repel the water, which in turn repels the printing ink from all but the marks first made.
- The glass, coated with microscopic chemical coatings, has properties which repel moisture and dirt, allowing them to be washed away during normal rainy weather.
- Further along, bioengineering may open the door to fabrics that constantly repel dirt while secreting the fragrances of your choice.
- Noddy terns, in contrast, have plumage that repels water better, and they are often seen flopping onto the sea, able to rest comfortably far from land.
- The mixture is an excellent material for coatings, according to Parris, because the zein portion resists grease, and the fatty acids repel water.
- And I got this idea that I would use India ink on acetate and make a brush-stroke, because the acetate kind of repels the ink.
- Unlike other corn proteins, which are water soluble, zein repels water, making it an ideal coating material.
Synonyms be impervious to, be impermeable to, keep out, be resistant to, resist
2Be repulsive or distasteful to. she was repelled by the permanent smell of drink on his breath Example sentencesExamples - The hermetic obscurantism of these older texts repels a more casual reader, steeped as they are in poststructuralist theory and remote Marxist anthropology.
- The ritual, which includes the mixing of human ashes and blood then drinking it, might repel us, but our reaction sharpens the real distinction and gulf between the savages' lives and ours.
- This contempt repels Marianne, who announces she will be going back to Stockholm.
- If presumably neither, the concert certainly was distinctively Pogorelich - an attribute that will continue to repel distracters and lure fans from all over the country.
- We all have reason to be shocked, shamed and repelled by the abuse of children.
- Then I asked them each to pick out one painting that he or she couldn't stand and tell me what it was about the picture that repelled or repulsed him or her.
- Initially repelled by Sam's sleazy antics, Rebecca denies him his job, but after her highers-up realizes that Sam, the former Red Sox great, will be good for business they press her to hire him back.
- She is repelled by the completely novel and anti-societal idea of it, and loses her patience.
- Sometimes, he's too passionate for his own good, repelling the very audience he's trying to communicate with.
- The sight and sounds of Tommy's thrusts shock and repel us; it's almost too much.
- For listeners, this rendering of a concert experience is ‘the kernel of enjoyment that simultaneously attracts and repels us’.
- Articles appeared in the trade press during December 1931 about how MGM studio personnel were so repelled by the sideshow cast that the studio set aside a special lunchroom for some of the performers.
- But there is, none the less, something in popular culture that repels him.
- Shostakovich's music is certainly not at all conventionally beautiful or appealing, and not a few critics and listeners are repelled by its banalities, raucous sonorities and obsessive rhythmic drive.
- Bernard is both enraptured and repelled by this snake.
- Such masculinity and Japaneseness attract and repel him at the same time.
- But he was repelled by the second-hand religiosity of Comte's strange invention.
- The contempt for outsiders repelled his sister-in-law - and drove her to seek a freer life for herself and her daughters.
- At first he was repelled by the air of luxury and corruption, but then enjoyed it.
- These figures remain indifferent to their own renown, they're repelled by the bourgeoisie (Berger also has a phobic reaction to this class), and they lead monastic lives.
Synonyms revolt, disgust, repulse, sicken, nauseate, make someone feel sick, turn someone's stomach, be repulsive to, be extremely distasteful to, be repugnant to, make shudder, make someone's flesh creep, make someone's skin crawl, make someone's gorge rise, put off, offend, horrify informal turn off, give someone the creeps, give someone the heebie-jeebies, make someone want to throw up North American informal gross out 3formal Refuse to accept (something, especially an argument or theory) the alleged right of lien led by the bankrupt's solicitor was repelled Synonyms refuse, decline, say no to, reject, rebuff, scorn, turn down, turn away, repudiate, treat with contempt, disdain, look down one's nose at, despise
Derivatives noun Paintings of the white tiger, considered a symbol of auspiciousness and repeller of evil, were once seen in every home and they were looked upon as benevolent messengers of the mountain spirit. Example sentencesExamples - Saint Martin's fitness for the role of defender of the soul and repeller of demons is thus undeniable.
- It incorporates a flight path of about 40 cm from repeller to a discrete dynode-type detector that is both sensitive and durable.
- Meanwhile, perhaps my tech-savvy readers can weigh in on a question that is currently fascinating the technophobe journalists in my office: do those electronic plug-in pest repellers actually work?
- This neglects the possibility of domain formation, of specific molecular interactions via stickers and repellers, and of membrane undulations.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin repellere, from re- 'back' + pellere 'to drive'. appeal from Middle English: Recorded first in legal contexts, appeal comes via Old French from Latin appellare ‘to address, accost, call upon’. Peal (Late Middle English) is a shortening of appeal, perhaps from the call to prayers of a ringing bell. The base of appeal is Latin pellere ‘to drive’, found also in compel ‘drive together’; dispel ‘drive apart’; expel ‘drive out’; impel ‘drive towards’; and impulsive; propel ‘drive forwards’; repel ‘drive back’, all Late Middle English. It is also the source of the pulse (Middle English) that you can feel on your wrist and is related to push (Middle English). The other kind of pulse, an edible seed, is a different word, which comes via Old French from Latin puls ‘porridge of meal or pulse’, related to the sources of both pollen and powder.
Rhymes Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell Definition of repel in US English: repelverbrəˈpɛlrəˈpel [with object]1Drive or force (an attack or attacker) back or away. government units sought to repel the rebels Example sentencesExamples - As time passes with the city's inhabitants weakening due to lack of food and the Mahdi's forces isolating the city, Gordon prepares Khartoum to repel invasion, all the time still hopeful of British intervention.
- Later on, after the invading French army has been repelled, Lear and Cordelia have been taken captive and Edmund gives these chilling words to his captain.
- This leads to actually repelling waves of enemy soldiers and tanks that roll out of the forest towards you.
- Furthermore, if the lifeboat owner, Jones, is being aggressed against by Smith, and has the right to prosecute Smith later on, he therefore also has the right to use force to repel Smith's aggression on the spot.
- Canevaro figured his team's quick response repelled the attackers and saved lives.
- Throughout the entire federation campaign, a couple of torpedo turrets were capable of repelling every attack the enemy mounted.
- McNamara and Blight argue that the U.S. should pledge not to use force unilaterally except to repel an attack, forgoing sovereign rights in favor of the collective security of a multilateral organization.
- In the physical world, once an attacker is repelled, you follow up with counterattack.
- It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders.
- He doesn't have the build for the Jackie Chan stunts he uses to repel the onslaught of his friends in crime-fighting, and he doesn't bear himself with heroic presence.
- Lt. Lane had never been required to repel any kind of onslaught since he'd taken command, but he was a well-trained Federation officer and had a masterful knowledge of all the defense tactics at his disposal.
- If these levels undergo and repel attacks, they instill even more confidence in the traders who've defended the barrier and, as such, are likely to generate strong profitable countermoves.
- They manage to defend themselves and repel the androids that have attacked them.
- Naturally Earth repels the attackers and defeats them just before Mars implodes.
- The site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground, and I believe they actually had to repel a few Indian attacks as they were building it.
- Finally his regiment successfully repels a charge by the enemy, and Henry feels relief and elation at his feeling of success.
- Peters is hard at work repelling the attackers, thrilled, he claims, to be a contrarian again.
- With mounting despair, he makes plans to repel the inevitable onslaught.
- In the film's climactic sequence, she turns into a Ninja fighter who repels the attacks of a group of dancing Israeli sharpshooters.
- As the indigenous people in the video game, you're tasked with repelling the invaders and driving them back into the sea.
Synonyms fight off, repulse, drive away, drive back, put to flight, force back, beat back, push back, thrust back - 1.1with object (of a magnetic pole or electric field) force (something similarly magnetized or charged) away from itself.
electrically charged objects attract or repel one another no object like poles repel and unlike poles attract Example sentencesExamples - It repels itself from the magnet it was once attracted to.
- Many everyday objects, including water and wood, are weakly diamagnetic - that is, they're repelled by magnetic fields.
- 1.2 (of a substance) resist mixing with or be impervious to (another substance)
boots with good-quality leather uppers to repel moisture Example sentencesExamples - Noddy terns, in contrast, have plumage that repels water better, and they are often seen flopping onto the sea, able to rest comfortably far from land.
- The essence of Senefelder's discovery was that if the stone is written on with a grease-based ink and then wetted, the ink will repel the water, which in turn repels the printing ink from all but the marks first made.
- Further along, bioengineering may open the door to fabrics that constantly repel dirt while secreting the fragrances of your choice.
- The mixture is an excellent material for coatings, according to Parris, because the zein portion resists grease, and the fatty acids repel water.
- Unlike other corn proteins, which are water soluble, zein repels water, making it an ideal coating material.
- The glass, coated with microscopic chemical coatings, has properties which repel moisture and dirt, allowing them to be washed away during normal rainy weather.
- A young scientist invents a material that is indestructible and repels dirt.
- And I got this idea that I would use India ink on acetate and make a brush-stroke, because the acetate kind of repels the ink.
Synonyms be impervious to, be impermeable to, keep out, be resistant to, resist
2Be repulsive or distasteful to. she was repelled by the permanent smell of drink on his breath Example sentencesExamples - Bernard is both enraptured and repelled by this snake.
- She is repelled by the completely novel and anti-societal idea of it, and loses her patience.
- But there is, none the less, something in popular culture that repels him.
- Then I asked them each to pick out one painting that he or she couldn't stand and tell me what it was about the picture that repelled or repulsed him or her.
- If presumably neither, the concert certainly was distinctively Pogorelich - an attribute that will continue to repel distracters and lure fans from all over the country.
- Articles appeared in the trade press during December 1931 about how MGM studio personnel were so repelled by the sideshow cast that the studio set aside a special lunchroom for some of the performers.
- At first he was repelled by the air of luxury and corruption, but then enjoyed it.
- The hermetic obscurantism of these older texts repels a more casual reader, steeped as they are in poststructuralist theory and remote Marxist anthropology.
- The sight and sounds of Tommy's thrusts shock and repel us; it's almost too much.
- This contempt repels Marianne, who announces she will be going back to Stockholm.
- Shostakovich's music is certainly not at all conventionally beautiful or appealing, and not a few critics and listeners are repelled by its banalities, raucous sonorities and obsessive rhythmic drive.
- Initially repelled by Sam's sleazy antics, Rebecca denies him his job, but after her highers-up realizes that Sam, the former Red Sox great, will be good for business they press her to hire him back.
- We all have reason to be shocked, shamed and repelled by the abuse of children.
- For listeners, this rendering of a concert experience is ‘the kernel of enjoyment that simultaneously attracts and repels us’.
- Sometimes, he's too passionate for his own good, repelling the very audience he's trying to communicate with.
- The ritual, which includes the mixing of human ashes and blood then drinking it, might repel us, but our reaction sharpens the real distinction and gulf between the savages' lives and ours.
- The contempt for outsiders repelled his sister-in-law - and drove her to seek a freer life for herself and her daughters.
- These figures remain indifferent to their own renown, they're repelled by the bourgeoisie (Berger also has a phobic reaction to this class), and they lead monastic lives.
- Such masculinity and Japaneseness attract and repel him at the same time.
- But he was repelled by the second-hand religiosity of Comte's strange invention.
Synonyms revolt, disgust, repulse, sicken, nauseate, make someone feel sick, turn someone's stomach, be repulsive to, be extremely distasteful to, be repugnant to, make shudder, make someone's flesh creep, make someone's skin crawl, make someone's gorge rise, put off, offend, horrify 3formal Refuse to accept (something, especially an argument or theory) the alleged right of lien led by the bankrupt's attorney was repelled Synonyms refuse, decline, say no to, reject, rebuff, scorn, turn down, turn away, repudiate, treat with contempt, disdain, look down one's nose at, despise
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin repellere, from re- ‘back’ + pellere ‘to drive’. |