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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
repel .
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Examples
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Pater's attitude towards the life about him, cloistered, faintly supercilious, gentlemanly, donnish in short, repels me.
The Summing Up Maugham, W Somerset 1938
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If the word repels us a little at first, it is from its appearance only.
Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883
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"It both gets people's attention and kind of repels people's attention, but it commands you to look at it and have an opinion about it."
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"It both gets people's attention and kind of repels people's attention, but it commands you to look at it and have an opinion about it."
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The fund-raising ordeal demeans those who hold public office and repels those who might seek it.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The fund-raising ordeal demeans those who hold public office and repels those who might seek it.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The fund-raising ordeal demeans those who hold public office and repels those who might seek it.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Instead of guarding with walls, that inefficiently block all types of energy, you attune with a vibrancy that supports health and repels or clears toxicity.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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You can help a child who repels other kids learn how to tone it down and learn to say friendlier things to his peers.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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Instead of guarding with walls, that inefficiently block all types of energy, you attune with a vibrancy that supports health and repels or clears toxicity.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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