Repel

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To save (a shot)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "Poles of the same name repel each other; poles of unlike name attract each other."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    attract  
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adel  Adele  Bel  Bell  Belle  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abjure  anticipate  appall  avert  bar  
    variant
    verb-form