Usually means: Drive or force away; resist.
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  1. repel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. repel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. repel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. repel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Repel, repel: Wordnik
  7. repel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. repel: Wiktionary
  9. repel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. repel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. repel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Repel, repel: Dictionary.com
  13. repel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. repel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Repel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Repel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. repel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. repel: Rhymezone
  19. repel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. repel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. repel: Free Dictionary
  22. repel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. repel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. repel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. repel: Legal dictionary

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  1. repel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repel: Medical dictionary

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  2. repel: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
verb:  (transitive, physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
verb:  (transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).

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