REPEL', v.t. [l. repello; re and pello, to drive.] 1. to drive back; to force to return; to check advance; as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.Hippomedon repell'd the hostile tide.And virtue may repel, though not invade.2. To resist; to oppose; as, to repel an argument.REPEL', v.i. 1. To act with force in opposition to force impressed. Electricity sometimes attracts and sometimes repels.2. In medicine, to check an afflux to a part of the body.
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