Dictionary Entry
repulse
repulse is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
- 2transitive verb
To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.
- 3noun
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
- 4noun
Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.
- 5noun
an instance of driving away or warding off
- 6verb
force or drive back
"repel the attacker"
"fight off the onslaught"
- 7verb
cause to move back by force or influence
"repel the enemy"
"push back the urge to smoke"
- 8verb
be repellent to; cause aversion in
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