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View definitions for repelled

repelled

adjective as in horrified

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adjective as in refused

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His fear that white Americans were being replaced by an army of invaders who must be repelled seemed to me symptoms of a reactive white supremacy, exacerbated by worries over scarcity brought on by the radically changing environment.

From Salon

The headlines tolling doom have cast a shadow over the work of millions of dedicated mathematicians, entrepreneurs, engineers, artists, ecologists and community advocates and repelled onlookers, creating a profound missed opportunity to reshape philanthropy.

From Salon

That’s why voters outside of Trump’s core base tend to be repelled by it when they see it.

From Slate

“The Pokrovsk direction leads the number of enemy attacks,” Kyiv stated this week - claiming that, in total, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had repelled about 150 “enemy” attacks on most days in the past two weeks.

From BBC

Israel said its missile-defense system repelled most of the incoming projectiles, but nonetheless declared it would retaliate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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