Repelling

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repel \Re**pel"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repelled}
     (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repelling}.] [L. repellere,
     repulsum; pref. re- re- + pellere to drive. See {Pulse} a
     beating, and cf. {Repulse}, {Repeal}.]
     1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance
        of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.


        [1913 Webster]
  
              Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted
              each other strongly.                  --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault,
        an encroachment, or an argument.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              [He] gently repelled their entreaties. --Hawthorne.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repel
       v 1: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy";
            "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
            [syn: {drive}, {repulse}, {force back}, {push back}, {beat
            back}] [ant: {attract}]
       2: be repellent to; cause aversion in [syn: {repulse}] [ant: {attract}]
       3: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the
          onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" [syn: {repulse}, {fight
          off}, {rebuff}, {drive back}]
       4: reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
          [syn: {rebuff}, {snub}]
       5: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: {disgust},
           {gross out}, {revolt}]
       [also: {repelling}, {repelled}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repelling
       adj : highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
             disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
             disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
             "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting},
              {disgustful}, {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome},
              {repellent}, {repellant}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked},
              {yucky}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repelling
       See {repel}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "repelling":
     antigravity, awful, centrifugal force, diamagnetic, diamagnetism,
     disaffinity, dreadful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly,
     grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathsome,
     magnetic repulsion, mutual repulsion, of opposite polarity,
     offensive, polarization, repellence, repellency, repellent,
     repugnant, repulsion, repulsive, revolting, terrible