(repels, repelling, repelled)
1.
When an army repels an attack, they successfully fight and drive back soldiers from another army who have attacked them. (FORMAL)
They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
VERB: V n
2.
When a magnetic pole repels another magnetic pole, it gives out a force that pushes the other pole away. You can also say that two magnetic poles repel each other or that they repel. (TECHNICAL)
Like poles repel, unlike poles attract...
As these electrons are negatively charged they will attempt to repel each other.
V-RECIP: pl-n V, V n
3.
If something repels you, you find it horrible and disgusting.
...a violent excitement that frightened and repelled her.
= revolt
VERB: no cont, V n
• repelled
She was very striking but in some way I felt repelled.
ADJ