Usually means: Driving away or resisting something.
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  1. repelling: Merriam-Webster
  2. repelling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repelling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. repelling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Repelling, repelling: Wordnik
  6. repelling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. repelling: Wiktionary
  8. Repelling, repelling: Dictionary.com
  9. repelling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Repelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. repelling: Rhymezone
  12. Repelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. repelling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. repelling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. repelling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. repelling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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  1. repelling: Encyclopedia

(Note: See repel as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repelling)

▸ noun:  An act by which something is repelled; repulsion.

Similar:
repulsion, standoff, recoiling, rejection, rebuffing, rejectment, deterrence, determent, refusal, repudiation, more...

Opposite:
attracting, drawing, alluring, enticing

Types:
insect repellent, rodent repellent, snake repellent, mosquito repellent, deer repellent, spider repellent, cat repellent, dog repellent, more...

Phrases:
self repelling, liquid repelling coating, liquid repelling, repelling coating, more...

Adjectives:
more, water, all, other, unknown, unprolific, mere, successful, electron, neutral, mortal

Colors:
    neon green,     toxic orange,     rust red,     bruise purple,     ash gray, more...

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Similar:
repulsion, standoff, recoiling, rejection, rebuffing, rejectment, deterrence, determent, refusal, repudiation, more...

Opposite:
attracting, drawing, alluring, enticing

Types:
insect repellent, rodent repellent, snake repellent, mosquito repellent, deer repellent, spider repellent, cat repellent, dog repellent, more...

Phrases:
self repelling, liquid repelling coating, liquid repelling, repelling coating, more...

Adjectives:
more, water, all, other, unknown, unprolific, mere, successful, electron, neutral, mortal

Colors:
    neon green,     toxic orange,     rust red,     bruise purple,     ash gray, more...



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