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Definition: REPULSING |
REPULSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Repulse |
Date "REPULSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: REPULSING |
| English words defined with "REPULSING": repulsion ♦ standoff. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The rebels covered by a ledge of rock repulsing the troops on the right- in the woods beyond the Duncker ch. [sic] Antietam. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hancocks Brigade repulsing the enemy. Battle of Williamsburg. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fighting in the woods Kearneys divison repulsing the enemy Monday June 30th 1862. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "REPULSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "REPULSING" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "REPULSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 击退 (repulse, Repulsed). (various references) | |
French | répulsion entre aimants (repulsing magnets). (various references) | |
German | abweisend (cool, denying, repelling, unsympathetic), abwehrend (defensive, deprecating, deprecatingly, fending, parrying). (various references) | |
Italian | repulsione magnetica (repulsing magnets). (various references) | |
Korean | 격퇴 (repelling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epulsingray.(various references) | |
Spanish | repulsión entre imanes (repulsing magnets). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"REPULSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nebulising. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REPULSING" (pronounced rēpu"lsing) |
| 6 | -p u" l s i ng | pulsing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: perusing, plungers, purlines, slurping, supering. | |
-2 letters: gulpers, gulpier, ligures, lineups, lingers, lungers, lupines, pilsner, pingers, plunger, plunges, pulings, pulsing, pungles, purines, purline, purling, purlins, pursing, repugns, reusing, rulings, slinger, spinule, splurge, springe, unpiles, uprisen. | |
-3 letters: genips, genius, gluers, gluier, grilse, gripes, gruels, guiles, gulper, gunsel, ingles, insure, inures, ligers, ligure, liners, lineup, linger. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: pleasuring, superlying. | |
+2 letters: presumingly, pulverising, resculpting, resupplying, sepulchring, spluttering. | |
+3 letters: pelargoniums, republishing, sepulchering, supercoiling, supercooling, upholstering. | |
+4 letters: oversupplying, prescheduling, serpiginously, superregional. | |
+5 letters: reupholstering, sprightfulness, superelevating, superovulating. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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