Repel
To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.
To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
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Repel Quotations
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
Kate Hudson
My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Nancy Astor
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
Camille Paglia
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
Theodore C. Sorensen
A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
Johnny Olson
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Repel Translations
repel in French is repoussons, refoulent, refouler, refoulons
repel in Latin is repello
repel in Spanish is rechazar
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