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• v  cause to move back by force or influence
• v  be repellent to; cause aversion in
• v  force or drive back
• v  reject outright and bluntly
• v  fill with distaste
• s  highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

• If it were not for this sharing of mesons, the physicists believe, most atoms would fly apart, their protons repelling one another with enormous force.
• Intriguingly, DDT is often better at repelling mosquitoes than killing them.
• Its secret is a matching set of repelling magnets, built into the bed and the floor below, that's powerful enough to support almost 2,000 lbs.

• repel
• drive
• repulse
• force back
• push back
• beat back
• fight off
• rebuff
• drive back
• snub
• disgust
• gross out
• revolt
• disgusting
• disgustful
• distasteful
• foul
• loathly
• loathsome
• repellent
• repellant
• revolting
• skanky
• wicked
• yucky

• attract

News & Articles

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• How to Win in the Google Stock Market
  A keyword's value depends on what kind of value you can extract from it – by repelling unqualified leads and attracting qualified ones. Through steady improvement, you can achieve market domination in one, and then an entire family, of keywords.
  June 10, 2013 - Search Engine Watch

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in Forbes
  I am convinced that common responsibility and equitable partnership offer the only tool for rebuffing these challenges and repelling any attempts to unleash new armed conflicts or undermine global security,Putin said.
• Ayman al-Zawahri in Malaysia Star
  My Muslim nation, today, we must be united and all Islamic movements must gather round the creed of ...... jihad, repelling the Zionist-crusader enemy and striving against him and his aides,Zawahri said.
• Adam Gadahn in The Sun
  Gadahn, with a $1million price on his head, said: "I call on every honest Muslim in America, Britain and Israel to prepare to play his due role in repelling the aggression of the enemies of Islam. This is a golden, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to...