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repel

drive back; ward off: repel the enemy; be repulsive to

Not to be confused with:

rappel – technique of controlled descent from a height: rappel down a cliff

re·pel

(rĭ-pĕl′)

v. re·pelled, re·pel·ling, re·pels

v.tr.

1. To ward off or keep away; drive back: repel insects.

2. To offer resistance to; fight against: repel an invasion.

3. To refuse to accept or submit to; reject: a company that was trying to repel a hostile takeover.

4. To refuse to accept (someone); spurn.

5. To cause aversion or distaste in: Your rudeness repels everyone. See Synonyms at disgust. See Usage Note at repulse.

6. To be resistant to; be incapable of absorbing or mixing with: Oil repels water.

7. Physics To present an opposing force to; push back or away from by a force: Electric charges of the same sign repel one another.

v.intr.

1. To offer a resistant force to something.

2. To cause aversion or distaste: behavior that repels.

[Middle English repellen, from Old French repeller, from Latin repellere : re-, re- + pellere, to drive; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]

re·pel′ler n.

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repel

(rɪˈpɛl)

vb (mainly tr) , -pels, -pelling or -pelled

1. to force or drive back (something or somebody, esp an attacker)

2. (also intr) to produce a feeling of aversion or distaste in (someone or something); be disgusting (to)

3. to push aside; dismiss: he repelled the suggestion as wrong and impossible.

4. to be effective in keeping away, controlling, or resisting: an aerosol spray that repels flies.

5. to have no affinity for; fail to mix with or absorb: water and oil repel each other.

6. to disdain to accept (something); turn away from or spurn: she repelled his advances.

7. (General Physics) (also intr) to exert an opposing force on (something): an electric charge repels another charge of the same sign.

[C15: from Latin repellere, from re- + pellere to push, drive]

reˈpeller n

Usage: See at repulse

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re•pel

(rɪˈpɛl)

v. -pelled, -pel•ling. v.t.

1. to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).

2. to thrust back or away.

3. to fail to mix with: Water and oil repel each other.

4. to resist the absorption of: This coat repels rain.

5. to cause distaste or aversion in.

6. to push away by a force (opposed to attract): The north pole of one magnet will repel the north pole of another.

v.i.

7. to act with a force that drives or keeps away something.

8. to cause distaste or aversion.

[1350–1400; Middle English repellen < Latin repellere to drive back =re- re- + pellere to drive, push; compare repulse]

re•pel′len•cy, n.

re•pel′ler, n.

repel

Past participle: repelled
Gerund: repelling

Imperative
repel
repel

Present
I repel
you repel
he/she/it repels
we repel
you repel
they repel

Preterite
I repelled
you repelled
he/she/it repelled
we repelled
you repelled
they repelled

Present Continuous
I am repelling
you are repelling
he/she/it is repelling
we are repelling
you are repelling
they are repelling

Present Perfect
I have repelled
you have repelled
he/she/it has repelled
we have repelled
you have repelled
they have repelled

Past Continuous
I was repelling
you were repelling
he/she/it was repelling
we were repelling
you were repelling
they were repelling

Past Perfect
I had repelled
you had repelled
he/she/it had repelled
we had repelled
you had repelled
they had repelled

Future
I will repel
you will repel
he/she/it will repel
we will repel
you will repel
they will repel

Future Perfect
I will have repelled
you will have repelled
he/she/it will have repelled
we will have repelled
you will have repelled
they will have repelled

Future Continuous
I will be repelling
you will be repelling
he/she/it will be repelling
we will be repelling
you will be repelling
they will be repelling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been repelling
you have been repelling
he/she/it has been repelling
we have been repelling
you have been repelling
they have been repelling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been repelling
you will have been repelling
he/she/it will have been repelling
we will have been repelling
you will have been repelling
they will have been repelling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been repelling
you had been repelling
he/she/it had been repelling
we had been repelling
you had been repelling
they had been repelling

Conditional
I would repel
you would repel
he/she/it would repel
we would repel
you would repel
they would repel

Past Conditional
I would have repelled
you would have repelled
he/she/it would have repelled
we would have repelled
you would have repelled
they would have repelled

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Verb	1.	repel - cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" beat back, force back, push back, repulse, drive drive - cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; "drive the ball far out into the field" push, force - move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" attract, pull in, draw in, pull, draw - direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
	2.	repel - be repellent to; cause aversion in repulse churn up, sicken, disgust, nauseate, revolt - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" put off, turn off - cause to feel intense dislike or distaste displease - give displeasure to attract, appeal - be attractive to; "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people"
	3.	repel - force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" drive back, fight off, repulse, rebuff fight down, oppose, fight, fight back, defend - fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"
	4.	repel - reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" rebuff, snub freeze off, spurn, pooh-pooh, disdain, scorn, turn down, reject - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
	5.	repel - fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" disgust, gross out, revolt excite, stir, stimulate - stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" nauseate, turn one's stomach, sicken - upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"

repel

verb

1. drive off, fight, refuse, check, decline, reject, oppose, resist, confront, parry, hold off, rebuff, ward off, beat off, repulse, keep at arm's length, put to flight troops ready to repel an attack
drive off submit to

2. disgust, offend, revolt, sicken, nauseate, put you off, make you sick, gross out (U.S. slang), turn you off (informal), make you shudder, turn your stomach, give you the creeps (informal) excitement which frightened and repelled her
disgust draw, please, attract, invite, delight, fascinate, entrance see repulse

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

repel

verb

1. To turn or drive away:

beat off, fend (off), keep off, parry, repulse, ward off.

2. To offend the senses or feelings of:

disgust, nauseate, revolt, sicken.

Idiom: turn one's stomach.

Translations

يَدْفَعيَرُد، يَصُديَنْفُر، يَشْمَئِز

odpuditodpuzovatodrazitzahnat

afvisefrastøde

abschlagen abstoßen zurückschlagen

απωθώ

repousser dégoûter renvoyer

taszítvisszataszít

hrekja; standasthrinda frá sérvekja viîbjóî/andúî

respingere ripugnare insettifugo

atremti

atgrūstatsistatstumtatvairītšķebināt

avstøte frastøte

отразить

odpudiťodpudzovať

defetmekiğrendirmekitmekkendinden uzaklaştırmakpüskürtmek

使人反感使厌恶击退排斥

repel

[rɪˈpel]

A. VT

1. (= force back) → repeler, rechazar

2. (= disgust) → repugnar, dar asco a
he repels me → me da asco, me repugna
it repels me to have to + INFIN → me repugna tener que + infin

B. VI → repelerse mutuamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

repel

[rɪˈpɛl] vt

(= disgust) → dégoûter

(= push back) [+ advance, invader] → repousser

repel

enemy, attack → zurückschlagen; sb’s advances, insects, flies → abwehren; water → abstoßen

(= disgust) → abstoßen

vi (= disgust) → abstoßen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

repel

[rɪˈpɛl] vt (frm) (force back) → respingere; (disgust) → ripugnare a

repel

(rəˈpel) – past tense, past participle reˈpelled – verb

1. to resist or fight (an enemy) successfully. to repel invaders.

2. to cause a feeling of dislike or disgust. She was repelled by his dirty appearance.

3. to force to move away. Oil repels water.

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But while he grasped about with his hands, around him, above him and below him, and repelled the tender birds, behold, there then happened to him something still stranger: for he grasped thereby unawares into a mass of thick, warm, shaggy hair; at the same time, however, there sounded before him a roar,--a long, soft lion-roar.

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Lady Janet felt suddenly repelled, without knowing why.

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Levin read the second volume of Homiakov's works, and in spite of the elegant, epigrammatic, argumentative style which at first repelled him, he was impressed by the doctrine of the church he found in them.

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When the Russian discovered who it was that repelled his advance he became furious, cursing and threatening in a most horrible manner; but, finding that these tactics failed to frighten or move the girl, he at last fell to pleading and promising.

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The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him.

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Rochester, to witness their repeated failure--herself unconscious that they did fail; vainly fancying that each shaft launched hit the mark, and infatuatedly pluming herself on success, when her pride and self-complacency repelled further and further what she wished to allure--to witness THIS, was to be at once under ceaseless excitation and ruthless restraint.

The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid.

Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs.

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Even he was repelled by the stem command, ``Down, Balder, down!

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As he was speaking thus, entirely occupied with his ciphers, and thinking no more of his gout, repelled by a preoccupation which, with the cardinal, was the most powerful of all preoccupations, Bernouin rushed into the chamber, quite in a fright.

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Germaine!" she exclaimed, starting back, as if the bare sight of me repelled her.

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And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me.

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