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/rɪpˈɛl/ 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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"Repel" Quotes from Famous Books

... surprise that she did not repel him, yet overcome with the belief that it was to be their last embrace, he lost himself for the time in mingled remorse and mad bliss. They clung to each other as so many others have clung in those short moments which are ...

— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall

... written across the forehead of the world. Others before him had been patriots of the purest order, but Raleigh was the first man who laid it down, as a formula, that "England shall by the favour of God resist, repel and confound all whatsoever attempts against her sacred kingdom." He had no political sense nor skill in statecraft. For that we go to the Burghleys or the Cecils, crafty men of experience and judgment. But he understood ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... pins to the torn gathers of the dress as enabled her to walk and hid her exposed under-clothing; and the instant that object was accomplished she thrust her arm into his, he making no attempt to repel the familiarity, but walking with hasty strides and almost dragging her after him, down into the ...

— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... it was his desire that those so assailed should try to repel force by force, employing that holy violence which takes heaven by storm, for, as by cutting and burning health is restored to the body, so also by these caustic remedies holiness is often preserved in ...

— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus

... later the old Colonel's battery lay intrenched right in the mountain-pass where it had halted three days before. Two weeks previously it had been detailed with a light division sent to meet and repel a force which it was understood was coming in by way of the southwest valley to strike Lee in the rear of his long line from Richmond to Petersburg. It had done its work. The mountain-pass had been seized and held, and the Federal force had not gotten by that road within the ...

— The Burial of the Guns • Thomas Nelson Page

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