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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Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound..
Repellency :: Repellency (n.) The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat..
Self-repelling :: Self-repelling (a.) Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..
Interrepellent :: Interrepellent (a.) Mutually repellent.
Orb :: Orb (n.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry..
Repellent :: Repellent (n.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style..
Repulse :: Repulse (v. t.) To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy..
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
Apocrustic :: Apocrustic (a.) Astringent and repellent.
Repellent :: Repellent (n.) A kind of waterproof cloth.
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace..
Repel :: Repel (v. i.) To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
Scowl :: Scowl (v. t.) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
Repeal :: Repeal (v. t.) To suppress; to repel.
Repercussive :: Repercussive (n.) A repellent.
Retropulsive :: Retropulsive (a.) Driving back; repelling.
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