repel
驱赶,排斥,击退,驱除
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re·pelled, re·pel·ling.
- : to drive or force back.
- : to thrust back or away.
- : to resist effectively.
- : to keep off or out; fail to mix with: Water and oil repel each other.
- : to resist the absorption or passage of: This coat repels rain.
- : to refuse to have to do with; resist involvement in: to repel temptation.
- : to refuse to accept or admit; reject: to repel a suggestion.
- : to discourage the advances of: He repelled me with his harshness.
- : to cause distaste or aversion in: Their untidy appearance repelled us.
- : to push back or away by a force, as one body acting upon another: The north pole of one magnet will repel the north pole of another.
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The cycle continued in the 1980s after the Soviet invasion and America’s support of militias to repel Moscow.
On CNN, someone was questioning whether the police had used sufficient force to repel the rioters, asking why they hadn’t arrested more people on the scene.
For her to field those lightning strikes of abuse and repel them with her own agency is a superhero display of its own.
This spectrally precise effect can be thought of as creating a force field that repels crowds around an embassy, base, port, or other high value location.
They couldn’t be 100% effective because they were just repelling them once they were there.
The only exception is military action to repel an imminent attack.
Bieber now knows his perfect body is no longer the weaponry with which to repel his bad press.
It was easy to imagine that the landscape was actively trying to repel us.
On paper, the forces in Tikrit should have been more than adequate to repel even a force of this size.
Scuffles broke out with riot police, who used pepper spray to repel party members wielding Greek flags on thick wooden sticks.
A dignified, modest reserve is the surest way to repel impertinence.
They were ready to adopt the most energetic measures to the interference of this armed confederacy.