It is some satisfaction to him that is repelled, that dignities, honours, offices, are not alwayes given by desert or worth, but for love, affinitie, friendship, affection, great mens letters, or as commonly they are bought and sold.
When an army repels an attack, they successfully fight and drive back soldiers from another army who have attacked them. They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack
cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" be repellent to; cause aversion in
{f} reject, refuse; force back, drive away; resist, prevent penetration or absorption; cause disgust, cause aversion
To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant
When a magnetic pole repels another magnetic pole, it gives out a force that pushes the other pole away. You can also say that two magnetic poles repel each other or that they repel. Like poles repel, unlike poles attract As these electrons are negatively charged they will attempt to repel each other
If something repels you, you find it horrible and disgusting. a violent excitement that frightened and repelled her. = revolt + repelled re·pelled She was very striking but in some way I felt repelled