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Adjective repelling has 1 sense
- disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky - highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
Antonym: inoffensive (indirect, via offensive)
Verb repel has 5 senses
- repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back - cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
--1 is one way to push, force
Antonyms: attract, pull, pull in, draw, draw in
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- repel, repulse - be repellent to; cause aversion in
--2 is one way to displease
Antonyms: attract, appeal
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to repel Sue
- repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back - force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
--3 is one way to fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- rebuff, snub, repel - reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
--4 is one way to reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- disgust, gross out, revolt, repel - fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"
--5 is one way to stimulate, excite, stir
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s somebody
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