Repel

Definition

repel /rÇ'pel/ v ( -ll- ) ၁။ တြန္းလွန္သည္။ repel an attacker/attack/invasion ❍ The surface repels moisture (ie does not allow it to penetrate). ၂။ ေအာ့ေၾကာလန္သည္။ Gratuitous violence repels most people. ❍ She was repelled by his filthy appearance. ၃။ တြန္းကန္သည္။ North magnetic poles repel each other. ❏ repellent /-ǝnt/ adj ၁။ ~ (to sb) ရြံရွာဖြယ္ရာ။ a repellent smell ❍ repellent attitudes/images/behaviour ❍ I find his selfishness repellent. ❍ The idea is repellent to me. ၂။ (in compounds) …စိမ့္မဝင္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ a water-repellent fabric. n [U] ၁။ (ျခင္စေသာ ပိုးေကာင္မ်ားကိုႏွင္ေသာ) ေဆး။ …ႏိုင္ ေဆး။ mosquito repellent. ၂။ (အထည္၊ ေက်ာက္တံုးစသည္ တို႔ကိုသုတ္လိမ္းရန္) ေရခံေဆး။

Examples

1. The wheat is genetically engineered to repel insects.
2. Boots that have been specially treated to repel moisture
3. Using water cannons and tear gas
4. police repelled protesters outside the US embassy.
5. A very private woman
6. who unconsciously repelled any attempts at intimacy