REPELLING

disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

(adjective) 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”

REPEL

rebuff, snub, repel

(verb) reject outright and bluntly; “She snubbed his proposal”

repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back

(verb) force or drive back; “repel the attacker”; “fight off the onslaught”; “rebuff the attack”

repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back

(verb) cause to move back by force or influence; “repel the enemy”; “push back the urge to smoke”; “beat back the invaders”

repel, repulse

(verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in

disgust, gross out, revolt, repel

(verb) fill with distaste; “This spoilt food disgusts me”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

repelling

present participle of repel

Noun

repelling (plural repellings)

An act by which something is repelled; repulsion.

Anagrams

• Pellegrin

Source: Wiktionary

REPEL

Re**pel" (r-pl"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repelled (-pld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repelling.] Etym: [L. repellere, repulsum; pref. re- re- + pellere to drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Repulse, Repeal.]

1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. Pope. They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. Macaulay.

2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [He] gently repelled their entreaties. Hawthorne.

Syn.

– Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.

Re*pel", v. i.

Definition: To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition