Repel
[rɪ'pel] or [rɪ'pɛl]
Definition
(verb.) force or drive back; 'repel the attacker'; 'fight off the onslaught'; 'rebuff the attack'.
(verb.) cause to move back by force or influence; 'repel the enemy'; 'push back the urge to smoke'; 'beat back the invaders'.
(verb.) be repellent to; cause aversion in.
Typist: Ora--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
(v. t.) To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.
(v. i.) To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Repulse; drive, beat, or force back.[2]. Resist, oppose, check, withstand, confront, parry, rebuff, BLUFF, strive against, make a stand against.[3]. Reject, refuse, decline.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Repulse, reject, refuse, deter, resist, check
ANT:Promote, propel, welcome, advance, accept, encourage, further
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Definition
v.t. to drive back: to repulse: to check the advance of to resist.—v.i. to act with opposing force: (med.) to check or drive inwards:—pr.p. repel′ling; pa.t. and pa.p. repelled′.—ns. Repel′lence Repel′lency.—adj. Repel′lent driving back: able or tending to repel.—n. that which repels.—n. Repel′ler.—adj. Repel′less.
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Examples
- Does not that repel you? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Her impulse was to repel him violently, break from this spell of mocking brutishness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They repel me, rather. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I repel a recommendation so offensive, was the answer, delivered in the same pure key, with the same clear look. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I--ha--I personally repel it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The troops from Corinth were brought up in time to repel the threatened movement without a battle. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Thornton's face assumed a likeness to his mother's worst expression, which immediately repelled the watching Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- First she shrank from remark; and, if persisted in, she, with her own peculiar _hauteur_, repelled it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Here the enemy made a last desperate effort to turn our flank, but was repelled. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Even he was repelled by the stern command, Down, Balder, down! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- My eyes and heart, Yorke, take pleasure in a sweet, young, fair face, as they are repelled by a grim, rugged, meagre one. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This fire of the chill night breaking constantly on to the pure darkness, repelled her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As a citizen, we have seen him repelling the efforts of tyranny, and ascertaining the liberty of his countrymen. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Some strange, dark, convulsive power was in Hermione, fascinating and repelling. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In every case that can be tested, it is found that a north pole repels a north pole, and a south pole repels a south pole; but that a north and a south pole always attract each other. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The limited stock of the Dutch East India company probably repels from that trade many great mercantile capitals which would otherwise go to it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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