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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repel \Re**pel"\ (r?-p?l"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Repelled} (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repelling}.] [L. repellere, repulsum; pref. re- re- + pellere to drive. See {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Repulse}, {Repeal}.]
1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. --Pope.
They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. --Macaulay.
2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.
[He] gently repelled their entreaties. --Hawthorne.
Syn: Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repel
verb
1: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" [syn: {drive}, {repulse}, {force back}, {push back}, {beat back}] [ant: {attract}]
2: be repellent to; cause aversion in [syn: {repulse}] [ant: {attract}]
3: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" [syn: {repulse}, {fight off}, {rebuff}, {drive back}]
4: reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" [syn: {rebuff}, {snub}]
5: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: {disgust}, {gross out}, {revolt}] [also: {repelling}, {repelled}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repelling
adjective: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting}, {disgustful}, {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome}, {repellent}, {repellant}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repelling See {repel}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "repelling": antigravity, awful, centrifugal force, diamagnetic, diamagnetism, disaffinity, dreadful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, magnetic repulsion, mutual repulsion, of opposite polarity, offensive, polarization, repellence, repellency, repellent, repugnant, repulsion, repulsive, revolting, terrible
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