REPEL


Meaning of REPEL in English

(~s, ~ling, ~led)

1.

When an army ~s 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 ~ any attack.

VERB: V n

2.

When a magnetic pole ~s another magnetic pole, it gives out a force that pushes the other pole away. You can also say that two magnetic poles ~ each other or that they ~. (TECHNICAL)

Like poles ~, unlike poles attract...

As these electrons are negatively charged they will attempt to ~ each other.

V-RECIP: pl-n V, V n

3.

If something ~s you, you find it horrible and disgusting.

...a violent excitement that frightened and ~led her.

= revolt

VERB: no cont, V n

~led

She was very striking but in some way I felt ~led.

ADJ

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