Usually means: Causes someone or something to retreat.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. repels: Merriam-Webster
  2. repels: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repels: Collins English Dictionary
  4. repels: Vocabulary.com
  5. Repels, repels: Wordnik
  6. repels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. repels: Wiktionary
  8. repels: Dictionary.com
  9. repels: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. repels: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repels: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. REPELS: Acronym Finder

(Note: See repel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (repel)

verb:  (transitive, now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
verb:  (transitive, physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
verb:  (transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).
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