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re·pelling
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Princeton's WordNet
disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective
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"
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repelling
Repelling refers to the action or process of driving or forcing something away or apart, usually due to similar or opposing forces. It is a form of rejection or dismissal due to conflict, aversion or disgust. In science, it is often used to describe the interaction between like-charged particles or magnetic poles that cause them to push each other away.
Webster Dictionary
Repelling
of Repel
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of repelling in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of repelling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of repelling in a Sentence
Finally, I would say these Chinese cyberattacks are an act of aggression on the United States, and they must stop, it is also true that our government has to be more competent about detecting and repelling those attacks.
Security forces are repelling the Taliban attack on some parts of Kunduz city. Their top priority is to protect the civilians, as always the Taliban have taken positions in civilian areas.
If people were magnets: I'd be the repelling pole.
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