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repel

/ri-pel/US // rɪˈpɛl //UK // (rɪˈpɛl) //

驱赶,排斥,击退,驱除

Related Words

withstand忍受着,忍受,忍受住了,忍受住confront对抗,对峙,对付,应对fend off打退堂鼓,打跑了,挡住,打跑resist抵制,抗拒,抗争,抵抗rebuff回绝,反驳,回击,拒绝ward off抵挡,抵御,挡住,抵制hold off抵制,搁置,拖住,隐瞒offend得罪,冒犯,得罪人,得罪了repulse击退,打退堂鼓,击退了,打击disgust厌恶,恶心,嫌弃,讨厌turn off熄灭,关掉,关上,关闭sicken使生病,使人作呕,患病,病倒decline衰退,减少,衰落,下降refuse拒绝,拒收,拒绝接受,拒不接受cut切,切割,削减,割traverse穿过,穿越,横穿,横越buck龅牙,降压,降压药,牡蛎cool酷,冷却,酷酷的,清凉dismiss驳回,遣散,辞退,罢免duel对决,对抗赛,决斗,对抗

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    re·pelled, re·pel·ling.

    • : to act with a force that drives or keeps away something.
    • : to cause distaste or aversion.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbpush away; repulse
Synonyms
chase away驱赶,赶走,驱除,驱赶着confront对抗,对峙,对付,应对drive away驱走,赶走,驱赶,驱离drive off驶离,驾车离开,开车离开,驱车前往fend off打退堂鼓,打跑了,挡住,打跑hold off抵制,搁置,拖住,隐瞒rebuff回绝,反驳,回击,拒绝resist抵制,抗拒,抗争,抵抗ward off抵挡,抵御,挡住,抵制withstand忍受着,忍受,忍受住了,忍受住buck龅牙,降压,降压药,牡蛎check检查,检查一下cool酷,冷却,酷酷的,清凉cut切,切割,削减,割decline衰退,减少,衰落,下降dismiss驳回,遣散,辞退,罢免disown不承认,不认,不认得,不认账dispute纠纷,争端,争议,争执duel对决,对抗赛,决斗,对抗fight斗争,争取,战斗,争斗kick踢,踢球,踹,踢人oppose反对,反对派,反对的,反对者parry辩才,辩解,辩护士,辩证法rebut反驳,驳斥,推翻,抗辩refuse拒绝,拒收,拒绝接受,拒不接受reject拒绝,拒绝接受,拒收,驳回traverse穿过,穿越,横穿,横越beat back击退,反击,打回原形,打退堂鼓beat off打掉了,打跑了,打掉,打断brush off不予理会,不予理睬cast aside丢在一边,丢弃,丢在一边的,丢开drive back驱回,驱车返回,开回,驾车返回force back逼退,迫退,逼回,迫回force off强行关闭,强制关闭,强行关掉,强行关give cold shoulder to冷眼旁观,冷落,冷眼相看,冷眼相待hold back扣留,拖后腿,抵制,扣留住keep at arm's length不离不弃,不即不离,不合时宜,不即不离地keep at bay挡住,挡住了,隐忍不发,挡住诱惑keep off挡住,挡住了,保留,阻止knock down打倒,击倒,撞倒,推倒push back推回,推退,逼退,推搪put down撂倒,放下,撂下,撂倒了put to flight放飞,驱赶,放走,放飞自我stand up against站出来反对,反对,抗拒,对抗stave off缓和,避开,延缓,缓期执行turn down驳回,拒绝,掉头向下,掉头
verbinduce aversion
Synonyms
disgust厌恶,恶心,嫌弃,讨厌offend得罪,冒犯,得罪人,得罪了repulse击退,打退堂鼓,击退了,打击sicken使生病,使人作呕,患病,病倒turn off熄灭,关掉,关上,关闭revolt叛乱,叛变,造反,起义give a pain in neck颈痛,颈部疼痛,颈椎病,画蛇添足make sick使生病,使人恶心,使人生病,使人感到恶心put off推迟,延缓,推迟了,推迟执行reluct勉强,勉强的,勉励,勉强接受turn one's stomach反胃,使人反胃,使人胃口大开,反感

Examples

  • 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 repel the interference of this armed confederacy.

  • Douglas was advancing to repel the assailants when he was informed of the force in rear, and instantly drew back his men.

  • The men of his company, roaring curses at the Frenchmen, prepare to receive and repel a thundering charge of French cuirassiers.

  • An always wrathful God would repel His worshipers, or cast them into despair.

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