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English to English adjective
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Driving back; able or tending to repel. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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serving or tending to repel | | Example: he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful
I find his obsequiousness repellent
source: wordnet30
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highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | | Example: a disgusting smell
distasteful language
a loathsome disease
the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
revolting food
a wicked stench
source: wordnet30
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incapable of absorbing or mixing with | | Example: a water-repellent fabric
plastic highly resistant to steam and water
source: wordnet30 noun
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a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | | source: wordnet30
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a chemical substance that repels animals | | source: wordnet30
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the power to repel | | Example: she knew many repellents to his advances
source: wordnet30
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That which repels. | | source: webster1913
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