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Repel

🔄 Synonyms of "Repel"

14 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
drivenoun	To operate a vehicle:
revoltnoun	(intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.
snubnoun	Conspicuously short.
rebuffnoun	(transitive) To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
brush offverb	(idiomatic) To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
repulsenoun	(transitive) To repel or drive back.
disgustnoun	An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
drive offverb	(idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
push backnoun	To refute or argue against a position or an accusation; to express one's own view on a situation.
turn offverb	(transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
fight offverb	To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.
beat backverb	(transitive) To fight against and cause to recede.
force backverb	cause to move back by force or influence
drive backverb	(transitive, idiomatic) To force someone or something to retreat or move away; repel.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
appealnoun	A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
pullverb	(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
draw inverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
pull inverb	(idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle or driver) To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop; to park by driving frontways into a parking spot.
attractverb	(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
repulseverb	(transitive) To repel or drive back.
rebuffverb	(transitive) To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
beat backverb	(transitive) To fight against and cause to recede.
turn offverb	(transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
revoltverb	(intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.
drive offverb	(idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
fight offverb	To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.
disgustverb	To cause an intense dislike for something.
brush offverb	(idiomatic) To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
driveverb	To operate a vehicle:
push backverb	To refute or argue against a position or an accusation; to express one's own view on a situation.
snubverb	(transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
drive backverb	(transitive, idiomatic) To force someone or something to retreat or move away; repel.
force backverb	cause to move back by force or influence
rebutverb	To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
refuseverb	(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
rejectverb	(transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
resistverb	(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
repressverb	(transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
displaceverb	To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.