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It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: 'Oooh no! Too much sunlight.'
Geri Halliwell

Meaning of "repelled" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REPELLED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPELLED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Repelled is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb repelled in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO REPELLED

PRESENT

Present
I repel
you repel
he/she/it repels
we repel
you repel
they repel
Present continuous
I am repelling
you are repelling
he/she/it is repelling
we are repelling
you are repelling
they are repelling
Present perfect
I have repelled
you have repelled
he/she/it has repelled
we have repelled
you have repelled
they have repelled
Present perfect continuous
I have been repelling
you have been repelling
he/she/it has been repelling
we have been repelling
you have been repelling
they have been repelling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I repelled
you repelled
he/she/it repelled
we repelled
you repelled
they repelled
Past continuous
I was repelling
you were repelling
he/she/it was repelling
we were repelling
you were repelling
they were repelling
Past perfect
I had repelled
you had repelled
he/she/it had repelled
we had repelled
you had repelled
they had repelled
Past perfect continuous
I had been repelling
you had been repelling
he/she/it had been repelling
we had been repelling
you had been repelling
they had been repelling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will repel
you will repel
he/she/it will repel
we will repel
you will repel
they will repel
Future continuous
I will be repelling
you will be repelling
he/she/it will be repelling
we will be repelling
you will be repelling
they will be repelling
Future perfect
I will have repelled
you will have repelled
he/she/it will have repelled
we will have repelled
you will have repelled
they will have repelled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been repelling
you will have been repelling
he/she/it will have been repelling
we will have been repelling
you will have been repelling
they will have been repelling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would repelled
you would repelled
he/she/it would repelled
we would repelled
you would repelled
they would repelled
Conditional continuous
I would be repelling
you would be repelling
he/she/it would be repelling
we would be repelling
you would be repelling
they would be repelling
Conditional perfect
I would have repelled
you would have repelled
he/she/it would have repelled
we would have repelled
you would have repelled
they would have repelled
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been repelling
you would have been repelling
he/she/it would have been repelling
we would have been repelling
you would have been repelling
they would have been repelling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you repel
we let´s repel
you repel
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to repel
Past participle
repelled
Present Participle
repelling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REPELLED

repeating
repeating decimal
repeating firearm
repechage
repeg
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repellance
repellancy
repellant
repellantly
repellence
repellency
repellent
repellently
repeller
repelling
repellingly
repent
repentance
repentant

WORDS THAT END LIKE REPELLED

called
cancelled
compelled
empanelled
excelled
expelled
fuelled
gravelled
labelled
levelled
modelled
panelled
propelled
quarrelled
rebelled
self-propelled
shelled
shrivelled
single-celled
travelled
unlabelled

Synonyms and antonyms of repelled in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «REPELLED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «repelled» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of repelled

Translation of «repelled» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REPELLED

Find out the translation of repelled to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of repelled from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «repelled» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

击退
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

repelido
570 millions of speakers

English

repelled
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

repelled
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صدت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отталкиваются
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

repelido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিরস্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

repoussé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ditolak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abgestoßen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

はじか
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

격퇴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ditolak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đẩy lùi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முறியடிக்கப்பட்டது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पळ काढला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

püskürtüldü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

respinto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odpychane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відштовхуються
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

respins
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απωθούνται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afgeweer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

repelleras
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frastøtt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of repelled

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REPELLED»

The term «repelled» is regularly used and occupies the 65.050 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REPELLED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «repelled» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «repelled» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about repelled

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9 QUOTES WITH «REPELLED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word repelled.
1
Margaret Anderson
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.
2
A. S. Byatt
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
3
Anderson Cooper
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
4
Geri Halliwell
It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: 'Oooh no! Too much sunlight.'
5
William Ralph Inge
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
6
Conor McPherson
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
7
Steve Stockman
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.
8
Robert Towne
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
9
Jess Walter
I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPELLED»

Discover the use of repelled in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to repelled and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Repelled yet Attracted
Alice has had lots of trouble ever since she moved from Paris to Washington. It is in Washington where the unexpected happens and that her little fingers can cause more problems. Will Alice escape her misery or stay trapped?
Ethel Widjaja
2
Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the ...
who originated from atum. as the winepress god was pure in edfu when he purified himself from the hind-part of the red fish—repelled is all evil from pharaoh. as Horus the oldest was pure, the begetting bull who grasped isis(?)58 [ . . .] of the ...
Christian Frevel, Christophe Nihan, 2012
3
The Principal Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of ...
Assembly repelled the objection, and sustained the Commission. It was objected to the Commission from the burgh of Linlith- gow, " That the designation of the Commissioner is not only " incomplete, but different from the person named in the  ...
Church of Scotland. General Assembly, 1781
4
Vertebrate Pest Control and Management Materials: 6th Volume
Animals that consume less than half of the food offered (for example, 12 seeds or less) are considered repelled. Their binary measurement would be 1. Animals that consume more than half are considered not repelled, and their binary ...
Kathleen A. Fagerstone, Richard D. Curnow, 1989
5
The Edinburgh Magazine, Or Literary Miscellany
8: fion is dated at Bet-vie, instead of Invetbervie." Repelled. objections to Principal M*Leod, from King's Colle e, Aberdeen. I- '* That the Commi 'on is null, as wanting the essentlal words, in order to eld? their Rhere entati-vt totþeen ning A ...
‎1789
6
The Insolent Invasion of Senacherib Against Jerusalem, ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
John Du Pont, 2010
7
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
Having thus safely established the fact that diamagnetic bodies are repelled, in virtue of a certain state into which they are cast by the influencing magnet, the next step of our inquiry is ; — Will the state evoked by one magnetic pole facilitate , ...
‎1855
8
A Treatise on the Law of Evidence
... 316. shorter period, with other circumstances, 316. how presumption repelled, 317, 318. of mortgage, after 20 years, when, 318. shorter time, with other circumstances, 319. whether 6 years will answer, where debt secured by simple contract ...
Samuel March Phillipps, Nicholas Hill, Esek Cowen, 1839
9
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete ...
He is attracted to gain and repelled by loss. He is attracted to fame and repelled by disrepute. He is attracted to praise and repelled by blame. He is attracted to pleasure and repelled by pain. Thus involved with attraction and repulsion, he is  ...
‎2012
10
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
If a fine downy feather, or any light body be tied to a silk thread, and electrified strongly, by touching it with the excited glass tube, it immediately flies from, or is repelled by the glass tube. If we now present an excited stick of sealing wax, the ...
‎1816

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPELLED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term repelled is used in the context of the following news items.
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ISIS attack on Shingal repelled
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Kurdish forces have repelled fresh Islamic State attacks on the city of Sinjar and killed more than 25 of the group's militants, ... «Rudaw, Jul 15»
2
Gunmen repelled in attack on state radio in C. African Republic
BANGUI, Central African Republic – The director of Central African Republic state radio says armed gunmen surrounded the station and attempted an attack but ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
Hezbollah repels ISIS attack on Lebanon-Syria border
BEIRUT – Hezbollah gunmen repelled an attack Tuesday by Islamic State group fighters in an area on the Lebanon-Syria border as a major battle between the ... «Fox News, Jun 15»
4
Fox host repelled by kindergarten diversity training because of …
Fox News host Steve Doocy suggested on Monday that it was dangerous for young children to learn about sexual diversity because he said that kindergartners ... «Raw Story, Jun 15»
5
Nigeria army repels Boko Haram as new president starts term
Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Nigeria's military on Saturday repelled a Boko Haram attack on the key northeastern city of Maiduguri, hours after President ... «Yahoo News, May 15»
6
ISIS fighters repelled in attack on Iraqi town
Iraqi forces and allied Sunni tribesmen repelled an Islamic State attack overnight on a town west of Baghdad, a tribal leader said Tuesday, as the government ... «Business Insider, May 15»
7
Yemen crisis: Saudi Arabia 'repels Houthi border attack'
Three Saudi troops and "dozens" of Houthi rebels were killed as Saudi forces repelled a major attack from inside Yemen, Saudi officials say. The rebels attacked ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
8
UN peacekeepers repel rebel attack in Timbuktu
Swedish peacekeepers in Mali say they have repelled a rebel attack on Timbuktu twice in two days. Heavily armed rebels in trucks fitted with machine guns ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
9
Islamic State militants breach Iraq refinery perimeter, repelled
BAGHDAD Islamic State militants breached the security perimeter around Iraq's largest refinery in Baiji early on Monday but were beaten back by security forces ... «Reuters, Apr 15»
10
Sunni tribe that repelled Islamic State pays heavy price for bridging …
In this Wednesday, March 25, 2015, photo, a Sunni fighter from the al-Jabouri tribe weeps in front of the grave of his relative killed in a battle with Islamic State ... «Fox News, Mar 15»

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