2 [transitive]PM to make someone who is attacking you go away, by fighting them The army was ready to repel an attack.

to have a magnetic field that pushes away something with a similar magnetic field: Similar poles of magnets repel each other, and opposite poles attract. SMART ...

''Repel'' in science is a term that describes two bodies pushing away from each other, generally as a result of an electrical force.

Simple Description. The action of pushing something away, for example, a north pole repels another north pole.

repel · verb. force or drive back. “repel the attacker” · verb. cause to move back by force or influence. “repel the enemy” · verb. be repellent to; cause aversion ...

The meaning of REPEL is to drive back : repulse. How to use repel in a sentence. When to Use Repel.

to push back or away by a force, as one body acting upon another ( attract ):. The north pole of one magnet will repel the north pole of another.

The only way to tell if an object is charged is to see if it repels another charged object. This is because a charged object can attract an uncharged insulator.

There are 19 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb repel, two of which are labelled obsolete. See 'Meaning & use' for definitions, usage, and quotation ...