REPEL

verb (~led; ~ling) see: felt Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to drive back ; repulse , to fight against ; resist , turn away , reject , 3. to drive away ; discourage , to be incapable of adhering to, mixing with, taking up, or holding, to force away or apart or tend to do so by mutual action at a distance, to cause aversion in ; disgust , intransitive verb to cause aversion, ~ler noun