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Repel
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Repel meaning
To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc. | To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.). | To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
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According to the WSJ, Western-supplied air-defense systems are increasingly helping the Ukrainian military repel the Iranian drone attacks.
A dispatch in the Times by its former Kyiv correspondent said Ukrainian troops defending the frontline area were “starved of ammunition” and hamstrung in their attempts to repel the advancing enemy soldiers.
A huge attack to repel with such little time left.
Alternatively, plants with foliage considered fragrant might actually repel insects.
An added complication has been the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s statement of 2022, although the primary mission of his country’s nuclear arsenal is to deter an attack, he would use nuclear weapons to repel an attack if deterrence failed.
A police cruiser is struck by a firework after a crowd at the takeover was able to repel the responding emergency vehicle back.
A second US-sponsored resolution on June 27 asked UN members to offer “such assistance as may be necessary” to South Korea to repel the invasion.
Australia hoped the Matildas could repel immense pressure and beat Olympic champions Canada to ensure their World Cup survival, but surely no one expected the one-sided demolition that unfolded.
But Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and now the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, said the Russian military is ready to repel a counterattack.
But they did it the hard way: chucking a two-goal lead and having to adapt to repel near-constant pressure from the visitors at one point.
European powers on Friday vowed to intensify support for Ukraine as it battles to repel Russia, with France’s president underlining at a major security conference that the time was not ripe for talks with Moscow.
However, he added, that in the bigger picture nothing has changed, pointing out that the Russians have been able to repel some of the attacks, though even from day one, they have not been 100 percent successful.
In recent days, they said, they have been able to repel several Russian offensives.
John Horsley, Technical Officer at British Pest Control Association, has described the feeling and look of a bite and some ways you can repel the powerful insect that can cause "rabbit fever".
Martinez made excellent stops to repel efforts from Brennan Johnson and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg before Son's strike was disallowed for offside to cap a frustrating afternoon for Tottenham.
Mitsotakis has also touted his government’s efforts to repel migration to Greek Islands and at the boarder it shares with its neighbour Turkey.
Nevertheless, it was frequent skirmishes at sea against the Turks that emboldened de Paule to upgrade the Order’s fleet and repel at least five Ottoman attacks on the island.
Now, mind you, Kibbutz Naan was not located on the border, where it would be counted on to repel an advancing enemy.
People walk past members of the Haitian National Police in March as they attempt to repel gangs in a neighborhood near the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince.
Putin's choreographed call-in show was cancelled last year as Moscow reeled from the shock of early failures of its military operation, where Ukraine managed to repel the Kremlin's assault on Kyiv and then regain territory in the east and south.