transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪpel ]
( repels, repelling, repelled)
1.
When an army repels an attack, they successfully fight and drive back soldiers from another army who have attacked them. ( FORMAL )
They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
VERB : V n
2.
When a magnetic pole repels another magnetic pole, it gives out a force that pushes the other pole away. You can also say that two magnetic poles repel each other or that they repel . ( TECHNICAL )
Like poles repel, unlike poles attract...
As these electrons are negatively charged they will attempt to repel each other.
V-RECIP : pl-n V , V n
3.
If something repels you, you find it horrible and disgusting.
...a violent excitement that frightened and repelled her.
= revolt
VERB : no cont , V n
• re‧pelled
She was very striking but in some way I felt repelled.
ADJ