Definition of repel

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Repel (v. t.) To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant..

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Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound..
Self-repelling :: Self-repelling (a.) Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling..
Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
Distant :: Distant (a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner..
Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why
Repeller :: Repeller (n.) One who, or that which, repels..
Scowl :: Scowl (v. t.) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
Disavaunce :: Disavaunce (v. t.) To retard; to repel; to do damage to.
Repel :: Repel (v. t.) To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant..
Repulsion :: Repulsion (n.) The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled..
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace..
Repellent :: Repellent (n.) A kind of waterproof cloth.
Cutinization :: Cutinization (n.) The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork..
Self-repulsive :: Self-repulsive (a.) Self-repelling.
Propulse :: Propulse (v. t.) To repel; to drive off or away.
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
Retropulsive :: Retropulsive (a.) Driving back; repelling.
Repel :: Repel (v. t.) To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Diamagnetic :: Diamagnetic (n.) Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet..
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