Repel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REPEL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to drive back
• drive or force (an attack or attacker) back or away
• (of a magnetic pole or electric field) force (something similarly magnetized or charged) away from itself
• (of a substance) resist mixing with or be impervious to (another substance)
• be repulsive or distasteful to
• refuse to accept (something, especially an argument or theory)
• be disgusting to
• To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
• To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.
• To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
• cause to move back by force or influence
• be repellent to; cause aversion in
• force or drive back
• reject outright and bluntly
• fill with distaste

Words related to REPEL

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Words that contain REPEL

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How to use REPEL in a sentence

• Still, it was not in his nature to repel the affection that yearned toward him with so overwhelming an impulse.
• The name of the untidy-looking young woman she had been about to repel was one of the most eminent in the impregnable quarter beyond the Seine.
• The town had been threatened by the enemy during our absence, and General Henningsen was busy putting it into a state better suited to repel any sudden attack.
• Immediately after this Conolly issued an open letter, commanding the backwoodsmen to hold themselves in readiness to repel any attack by the Indians, as the Shawnees were hostile.
• At the British trading-posts, strong log structures fitted to repel Indian attacks, Pike was well received.
• And so, being more anxious to inflict injury than to repel it, he set Sweden free from the arms of the enemy.
• Other signals were also agreed on, in order to regulate the movements of the boats, in the event of their being called back to the Peak to repel an invasion.
• After the fall of the Wang clique there were two others, of which one, that of General Yue, became particularly powerful, as he had been able to repel a Mongol attack on Peking.
• At the outbreak of the second war with England, he was sent to Lake Champlain, and set about the building of a fleet to repel the expected British invasion from Canada.
• Conscious of its duty, Belgium is firmly resolved to repel aggression by all possible means.
• Even now there are days of depression, of doubt, alarm, and loneliness, when I am forced to repel the intrusion of that sad parting, though it was not fated to be the last.
• There was with me a sort of expression I could not repel that I should never see the middle aged men again.
• Who was this intruder? The two poles repel each other.
• The long list of his triumphs, as youth counted them, was indeed superior to those of the great Carthaginian, and he believed that Lee would repel this new danger.
• He had no armor strong enough to repel the invasion of death.
• At times, with a strong effort, he would glance at the open door which still seemed to repel his eyes.
• There are good men who repel, and bad men who attract.
• As soon as Siegfried was made aware of the threatened invasion he declared that if Gunther would only give him one thousand brave men he would repel the foe.
• I rejoice, heartily, that you have had resolution to resist his allurements, to detect and repel his artifices.
• Give me my bow of horn, the gift of Phoebus, with which Apollo said I should repel the Fiends, if they appalled me by their maddened raging.
• Other colors repel, perhaps for the opposite reason.
• He was constantly haunted by fears of a rising of the oppressed people, and to repel that danger was becoming continually more despotic.
• The King at once commanded that Chou-pien should proceed at the head of 30,000 men to repel the enemy.
• Yet he did not yield to it, although he could not repel it.
• Such as it was, the company was ordered in June, 1861, to proceed to Cumberland to repel a threatened attack of Confederate forces.
• So the president was thought the proper person to have command of the public forces, to execute the laws of the United States, to repel invasion, and to carry on war.

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