Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Repel \Re*pel"\, v. i.
To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to
exercise repulsion.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. --Pope.
They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted
each other strongly. --Macaulay.
2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault,
an encroachment, or an argument.
[He] gently repelled their entreaties. --Hawthorne.
Syn: Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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 [syn: {rebuff}, {snub}, {brush
off}]
5: fill with distaste; "This fould language disgusts me" [syn:
{disgust}, {revolt}]
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