verb (repelled; repelling) see: felt
Date: 15th century
transitive verb
1. to drive back ; repulse , to fight against ; resist , turn away , reject ,
3. to drive away ; discourage , to be incapable of adhering to, mixing with, taking up, or holding, to force away or apart or tend to do so by mutual action at a distance, to cause aversion in ; disgust , intransitive verb to cause aversion, repeller noun