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verb

Repel v. t. (past & past part. repelled; pres. part. repelling)

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." "They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly."

To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. "(He) gently repelled their entreaties."

Synonyms: Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.

Repel v. i. To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

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Etymology of 'Repel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repel" Quotes from Famous Books

... darkness, the Casa Viola seemed to have changed its nature; his home appeared to repel him with an air of hopeless and inimical mystery. ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... against it. Our Lord once cautioned His Apostles (Matt. 26:41) to watch and pray lest they fall into temptation; teaching us also by the same warning that, besides praying against our spiritual enemies, we must watch their maneuvers and be ever ready to repel ...

— Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) - An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine • Thomas L. Kinkead

... commander, who will distribute it into a Forward Body to develop the attack in the firing line; Supports, to enable the Forward Body to assault the position; and Local Reserves to maintain or restore the advantages gained, their main function being to repel counter-attacks by similar bodies of the enemy and ...

— Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers • Anonymous

... a large and overwhelming force of the enemy, is not sustained by the evidence before the Court. On the contrary, with reference to the alleged knowledge of that fact, the Court is of opinion that the rumors which immediately before his party was disembarked to repel any attack on the village of Fort Erie, were, in so far as regarded the strength of the enemy's force, so much at variance with previously received information of a definite nature, as to be disbelieved not only by Lieut.-Colonel Dennis, but to some extent by the officers who have ...

— Troublous Times in Canada - A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 • John A. Macdonald

... O! had she then gave over, Such nectar from his lips she had not suck'd. 572 Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover; What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd: Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, Yet love breaks through and picks ...

— Venus and Adonis • William Shakespeare

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