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/rəpˈɛlɪŋ/ Listen

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 'Repelling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... their share and fought like men in the great field. All day long, whilst the women were praying ten miles away, the lines of the dauntless English infantry were receiving and repelling the furious charges of the French horsemen. Guns which were heard at Brussels were plowing up their ranks, and comrades falling, and the resolute survivors closing in. Toward evening the attack ...

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... men, from our homes in the Transvaal we have journeyed to meet again, Free burghers, we ask His mercy and trust in His grace and bind ourselves and our children in a solemn oath to be faithful to one another and to stand by one another in repelling our enemy with our last drop of life-blood. So truly ...

— With the Boer Forces • Howard C. Hillegas

... friendly fashion, as the ambassadors of the great king whom Cortez claimed to represent. Some of the other counselors, led by Cuitlahua, Montezuma's brother, were in favor of turning out all the forces and repelling the invasion; but Cacama's counsel prevailed, and an embassy was dispatched, under his leadership, to greet the Spaniards and conduct ...

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... exposure to March winds, but his brow was as white as hers. In his morbid tendency to shun every one, he usually kept his eyes fixed on the ground so as to appear not to see people, and this, with his habitual frown, gave a rather heavy and repelling ...

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