intransitive verb. To ward off or keep away; drive back.

intransitive verb. To offer resistance to; fight against.

intransitive verb. To refuse to accept or submit to; reject.

intransitive verb. To refuse to accept (someone); spurn.

intransitive verb. To cause aversion or distaste in: synonym: disgust.

intransitive verb. To be resistant to; be incapable of absorbing or mixing with.

intransitive verb. To present an opposing force to; push back or away from by a force.

intransitive verb. To offer a resistant force to something.

intransitive verb. To cause aversion or distaste.

To drive back; force to return; check the advance of; repulse: as, to repel an assailant.

To encounter in any manner with effectual resistance; resist; oppose; reject: as, to repel an encroachment; to repel an argument.

To drive back or away: the opposite of attract. See repulsion.

Synonyms and Decline, Reject, etc. (see refuse), parry, ward off, defeat.

To act with force in opposition to force impressed; antagonize.

In medicine, to prevent such an afflux of fluids to any particular part as would render it tumid or swollen.

intransitive verb. To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

transitive verb. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

transitive verb. To resist or oppose effectually.

verb. To save (a shot)

verb. fill with distaste

verb. reject outright and bluntly

verb. be repellent to; cause aversion in

verb. force or drive back

verb. cause to move back by force or influence

"Poles of the same name repel each other; poles of unlike name attract each other."