REPELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repelling mean? 

• REPELLING (adjective)
  The adjective REPELLING has 1 sense:

1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

  Familiarity information: REPELLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPELLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Synonyms:

disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky

Context example:

a wicked stench

Similar:

offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)

 Context examples 

Upon placing the magnet erect, with its attracting end towards the earth, the island descends; but when the repelling extremity points downwards, the island mounts directly upwards.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It has been used for inducing abortions, repelling fleas and ticks, and for treating illnesses of the digestive system.

(Pennyroyal Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Any chemical substance, biological agent or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest, including insects, plant pathogens, weeds, mollusks, birds, mammals, fish, nematodes (roundworms) and microbes that compete with humans for food, destroy property, spread or are a vector for disease or are a nuisance.

(Pesticide, NCI Thesaurus)

To explain the manner of its progress, let A B represent a line drawn across the dominions of Balnibarbi, let the line c d represent the loadstone, of which let d be the repelling end, and c the attracting end, the island being over C: let the stone be placed in position c d, with its repelling end downwards; then the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards D.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When it is arrived at D, let the stone be turned upon its axle, till its attracting end points towards E, and then the island will be carried obliquely towards E; where, if the stone be again turned upon its axle till it stands in the position E F, with its repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely towards F, where, by directing the attracting end towards G, the island may be carried to G, and from G to H, by turning the stone, so as to make its repelling extremity to point directly downward.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)