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repellent

/ri-pel-uhnt/US // rɪˈpɛl ənt //UK // (rɪˈpɛlənt) //

驱虫剂,驱蚊剂,驱赶,驱避剂

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
    • : forcing or driving back.
    • : serving or tending to ward off or drive away.
    • : impervious or resistant to something: moth-repellant.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that repels, as a substance that keeps away insects.
    • : a medicine that serves to prevent or reduce swellings, tumors, etc.
    • : any of various durable or nondurable solutions applied to a fabric, garment, surface, etc., to increase its resistance, as to water, moths, mildew, etc.

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Examples

  • He witnessed repellent people spreading images of child sexual exploitation, flooding an affiliated image board so thoroughly that it had to be shut down.

  • Down is certainly a good product when used properly, packs down tighter than synthetic insulation, however, despite major advancements in moisture-repellent treatments for down, it’s just not as foolproof.

  • Questions have swirled about how such an important government building, with so many security agencies available to assist, could be overcome by a mob of people wielding bats, bear repellent, and brute force.

  • The insects have a hard, water-repellent outer covering called a cuticle, and can typically float on a liquid — and sure enough, the insects floated and fed without a problem.

  • A small strip of a water-repellent material separated the three sections, each treated with proteins to sense a different antibody.

  • Why do you think you were “an asperg-y movie fan…a jabbering repellent acolyte?”

  • Turning now to blame the American people for that violence is especially repellent for this reason.

  • This she did (we are not told how), and Beethoven reacted with ‘repellent coldness’.

  • But nothing seemed to change the fact that the best repellent, for everyone else, was to have me around.

  • The point is that sexual sleaze is more repellent when everyone can see it up close.

  • The images and pictures on the outside of the wall were made repellent, to keep strangers aloof.

  • He was an exceedingly handsome man of perhaps forty years of age, and yet there was something repellent in his features.

  • But Rosa had been too coy to Alfred's evident devotion—almost repellent at seasons.

  • It was trim and neat, indeed, and spotlessly clean; but it had the chill, repellent look of an uninhabited apartment.

  • They had the curious tattooing on their cheeks, noses and foreheads, so that their appearance was repellent.