repel
[verb]
Synonyms:
- disgust, gross out (U.S. slang), nauseate, offend, revolt, sicken
- drive off, fight, hold off, parry, rebuff, repulse, resist, ward off

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Antonyms: allure, attract

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

re‧pel /rɪˈpel/ verb (past tense and past participle repelled, present participle repelling)
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: repellere, from pellere 'to drive']

1. [transitive] if something repels you, it is so unpleasant that you do not want to be near it, or it makes you feel ill ⇒ repulsive:
The smell repelled him.

2. [transitive] to make someone who is attacking you go away, by fighting them:
The army was ready to repel an attack.

3. [transitive] to keep something or someone away from you:
a lotion that repels mosquitoes

4. [intransitive and transitive] technical if two things repel each other, they push each other away with an electrical force Antonym : attract:
Two positive charges repel each other.

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