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Repel   /rɪpˈɛl/   Listen
Repel

verb
(past & past part. repelled; pres. part. repelling)
1.
Cause to move back by force or influence.  Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repulse.  "Push back the urge to smoke" , "Beat back the invaders"
2.
Be repellent to; cause aversion in.  Synonym: repulse.
3.
Force or drive back.  Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repulse.  "Fight off the onslaught" , "Rebuff the attack"
4.
Reject outright and bluntly.  Synonyms: rebuff, snub.
5.
Fill with distaste.  Synonyms: disgust, gross out, revolt.



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"Repel" Quotes from Famous Books



... period after dark, when she could not tell, a tap at the window, twice and thrice repeated, became audible. It caused her to start up, for the only visitant in her mind was the one whose advances she had so feared as to risk health and life to repel them. She crept to the window, and heard a ...
— A Group of Noble Dames • Thomas Hardy

... idlers who want to kill time, fill the lecture-room. To prevent empty benches the lecture course becomes a conference d'Athenee, which is pleasant enough or sufficiently general to interest or, at least, not to repel people of society.[6231] Two establishments remain for teaching true science to the workers who wish to acquire it; who, in the widespread wreck of the ancient regime have alone survived in the Museum of Natural History, with its thirteen ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 2 (of 2) • Hippolyte A. Taine

... had been insensible to the desire of ascending the throne of England, or ignorant of the schemes long going on to raise him to it. William followed the progress of these schemes step by step; he accepted no share in the means, but he did not repel the end, and, without directly encouraging, he protected its authors. His ambition was ennobled by the greatness and justice of the cause to which it was attached—the cause of religious liberty and of the balance of power in Europe. Never did man ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... must be remembered that a wet leaf will repel oil, therefore the lettuce or other salad must be well dried before it is sent to table. This is best done by swinging it in a salad basket, and then spreading it between two cloths for a few minutes. ...
— Choice Cookery • Catherine Owen

... is easier for me now to be sceptical than to open my heart generously to any one who in our day declares himself a message-bringer to mankind. You know how cautiously I have proceeded with this American vates. At first I found so much to repel me, yet from the first also I was conscious of a new music, and then the clamour of the vulgar against the man was quite enough to oblige me to give him careful attention. If one goes on the assumption that ...
— Thyrza • George Gissing


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