repelling

Madison and Monroe ordered cannons to the banks of the river to prepare to repel the next wave of invaders.

As in any conflict, sometimes the effort to repel an infection can itself be damaging.

In other number news, Vesselin Dimitrov used another well-known bridge — connecting polynomials to power series — to quantify exactly how certain numerical solutions to polynomials work to geometrically repel each other.

A water-repelling compound keeps the web from absorbing water.

This is what leaves you immunized and ready to repel the real virus if it turns up.

None of this should be read as anti-male or man-hating, jokes about man-repelling aside.

Harkness saw the last ones vanish as Chet drove down through the repelling area.

You hold yourself aloof from your school-mates, repelling every offered familiarity, yet I have seen you weep after such an act.

The rebels had exhausted themselves, even, more in their assaults than the Union men had in repelling them.

Years were between; and there was a division of circumstance, more repelling than an abyss or the rush of deep wild waters.

Part of this was owing to her education, part to the necessity of repelling sometimes the advances of conceited coxcombs.