Definition of repel

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

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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..
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound..
Forbidding :: Forbidding (a.) Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air..
Propulse :: Propulse (v. t.) To repel; to drive off or away.
Propulsation :: Propulsation (n.) The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance.
Repellent :: Repellent (a.) Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Repel :: Repel (v. i.) To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
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..
Self-repulsive :: Self-repulsive (a.) Self-repelling.
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..
Self-repellency :: Self-repellency (n.) The quality or state of being self-repelling.
Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
Repelled :: Repelled (imp. & p. p.) of Repe.
Repulsion :: Repulsion (n.) The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled..
Repercussive :: Repercussive (a.) Repellent.
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace..
Apocrustic :: Apocrustic (a.) Astringent and repellent.
Interrepellent :: Interrepellent (a.) Mutually repellent.
Repeller :: Repeller (n.) One who, or that which, repels..
Repellent :: Repellent (n.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
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