Definitions for repel

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repel re·pel

Spelling: [ri-pel]

IPA: /rɪˈpɛl/

Repel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in repel (eelpr).

Definitions for repel

verb (used with object)

1. to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
2. to thrust back or away.
3. to resist effectively (an attack, onslaught, etc.).
4. to keep off or out; fail to mix with:
5. to resist the absorption or passage of (water or other liquid):
6. to refuse to have to do with; resist involvement in:
7. to refuse to accept or admit; reject:
8. to discourage the advances of (a person):
9. to cause distaste or aversion in:
10. to push back or away by a force, as one body acting upon another (opposed to attract):

verb (used without object)

1. to act with a force that drives or keeps away something.
2. to cause distaste or aversion.

Origin of repel

1350-1400; Middle English repellen Latin repellere to drive back, equivalent to re- re- + pellere to drive, push; see repulse

Examples for repel

Scuffles broke out with riot police, who used pepper spray to repel party members wielding Greek flags on thick wooden sticks.

The only exception is military action to repel an imminent attack.

Bieber now knows his perfect body is no longer the weaponry with which to repel his bad press.

It was easy to imagine that the landscape was actively trying to repel us.

Something that he could not repel since it had no substance he could grapple with.

Energetic measures were, however, adopted to repel the attack.

Or did the horror of the men at the sight of him wound and repel him?

On paper, the forces in Tikrit should have been more than adequate to repel even a force of this size.

But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.

We see the noble afar off and they repel us; why should we intrude?