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Repulse

🔄 Synonyms of "Repulse"

10 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
drivenoun	To operate a vehicle:
snubnoun	Conspicuously short.
repelverb	(transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
rebuffnoun	(transitive) To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
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.
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
repelverb	(transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
rebuffnoun	(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.
drive offverb	(idiomatic) To force to leave or go away.
fight offverb	To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.
drivenoun	To operate a vehicle:
push backnoun	To refute or argue against a position or an accusation; to express one's own view on a situation.
snubnoun	Conspicuously short.
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
rejectverb	(transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
avertverb	(transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
resistverb	(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.
postponeverb	To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
disgustnoun	An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
lowerverb	Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
intrudersnoun	Someone who intrudes.
rebutverb	To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
propulseverb	(transitive) To propel; to drive forward.
depulseverb	(obsolete, transitive) To drive away.