Repelling can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| repelling - highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" | ||
Verb |
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| repelling - Present participle of repel. |
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| 1. | verb | He continues always being aggressive towards society, rather than repelling society and confining himself. | |
| 2. | verb | Repel the enemy. | |
| 3. | verb | Repel the attacker. | |
| 4. | verb | There are plants that repel insects. | |
| 5. | verb | The people could repel the invasion. | |
| 6. | verb | Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. | |
| 7. | verb | I call the living, I mourn the dead, I repel lightning. | |
| 8. | verb | Marigolds repel nematodes, as well as some humans who don't like the way they smell. | |
| 9. | verb | If I bow before the authority of the specialists and avow my readiness to follow, to a certain extent and as long as may seem to me necessary, their indications and even their directions, it is because their authority is imposed upon me by no one, neither by men nor by God. Otherwise I would repel them with horror, and bid the devil take their counsels, their directions, and their services, certain that they would make me pay, by the loss of my liberty and self-respect, for such scraps of truth, wrapped in a multitude of lies, as they might give me. | |
| 10. | verb | He continues always being aggressive towards society, rather than repelling society and confining himself. |
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| He continues always being aggressive towards society, rather than repelling society and confining himself. | |
| Repel the enemy. |
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| Repel the attacker. |
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| There are plants that repel insects. | |
| The people could repel the invasion. | |
| Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. | |
| I call the living, I mourn the dead, I repel lightning. | |
| Marigolds repel nematodes, as well as some humans who don't like the way they smell. | |
| If I bow before the authority of the specialists and avow my readiness to follow, to a certain extent and as long as may seem to me necessary, their indications and even their directions, it is because their authority is imposed upon me by no one, neither by men nor by God. Otherwise I would repel them with horror, and bid the devil take their counsels, their directions, and their services, certain that they would make me pay, by the loss of my liberty and self-respect, for such scraps of truth, wrapped in a multitude of lies, as they might give me. | |
| He continues always being aggressive towards society, rather than repelling society and confining himself. | |