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How to pronounce “repel”
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Pronunciation guide for repel
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of repel with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Yosemite’s Most Iconic Climb
And we repelled down, went back to school for a year,
- Definition summary
- (transitive, now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc. [from 15th c.]
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How to pronounce repel
Yosemite’s Most Iconic Climb
And we repelled down, went back to school for a year,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “repel”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.). [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.). [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.). [from 15th c.]
- (transitive, physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).
- [Noun]
- a hair out of place
- (woodworking) snag
- (dialectal) hangnail
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