Definition of "repels" [repels]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repel. (verb)

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• "Pater's attitude towards the life about him, cloistered, faintly supercilious, gentlemanly, donnish in short, repels me."
• "If the word repels us a little at first, it is from its appearance only."
• ""It both gets people's attention and kind of repels people's attention, but it commands you to look at it and have an opinion about it.""