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Definition: Repelling |
RepellingAdjective1. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repelling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: RepellingSynonyms: disgustful (adj), disgusting (adj), distasteful (adj), foul (adj), loathly (adj), loathsome (adj), repellant (adj), repellent (adj), revolting (adj), wicked (adj), yucky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recession | Adjective: repelling; Verb: repellent, repulsive; abducent, abductive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Repelling |
| English words defined with "repelling": Boarding pike ♦ Propulsation ♦ Repellency, repulsion, Retropulsive ♦ standoff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "repelling": Debye Shielding ♦ repelling energy, repelling groyne. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Repelling the Enemy (1899) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Crewmen on USS Boston (CA-69) consume night rations after repelling a Japanese torpedo plane attack in the darkness off Formosa, 14 October 1944. The men are (from left to right): Storekeeper 3rd Class J.F. Livingston; Coxwain H. Lowe; Seaman 1st Class K.A. Kalajian; and Seaman 2nd Class F.L. Dugan. Note stretchers serving as seats, Dugan's life jacket and helmet (with liner).Credit: NAVY. |  | The troops on the center 3rd & 5th Corps repelling a rebel assalt [sic]--Sunday May 3rd 1863.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | If in asserting rights or in repelling wrongs war should come upon us, our regular force should be increased to an extent proportional to the emergency, and our present small Army is a nucleus around which such force could be formed and embodied. |
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| "Repelling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Repelling" is used about 18 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) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "repelling": repelling energy ♦ repelling groyne. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "repelling": insect-repelling, Self-repelling, water-repelling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mosquito plant repelling | 23 | babe repelling | 3 |
repelling | 18 | cliff repelling | 3 |
insect plant repelling | 9 | knots repelling | 2 |
mosquito repelling | 7 | climbing repelling rock | 2 |
mosquitos repelling | 6 | bear effective has proven repelling so spray | 2 |
repelling skunk | 5 | climbing repelling | 2 |
gear repelling | 4 | ant repelling | 2 |
repelling rabbit | 4 | repelling deer | 2 |
repelling cat | 3 | repelling wasp | 2 |
repelling snake | 3 | bird repelling | 2 |
raccoon repelling | 3 | bug plant repelling | 2 |
fly repelling | 3 | repelling woman | 2 |
equipment repelling | 3 | bat repelling | 2 |
repelling rope | 3 | ||
bat repelling | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "repelling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | afstootlik (repellent, repulsive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '斥 (Ejection, marginalise, marginality, marginalize, repel, Repelled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onguur (nasty, repellent, repulsive, unreliable), afstotelijk (repellent, repulsive), afstotelýk (repellent, repulsive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | malloga (repellent, repulsive), forloga (repellent, repulsive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | horrible (repellent, repulsive), affreux (repellent, repulsive), épouvantable (repellent, repulsive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | abweisend (cool, denying, repulsing, unsympathetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszataszító (abominable, appalling, distasteful, forbidding, foul, galoot, hideous, obnoxious, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, repulsiveness, sickening, sleaze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | pennello obbliquo discendente (deflecting groyne, repelling groyne), pennello a favore di corrente (deflecting groyne, repelling groyne), energia di repulsione (repelling energy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 反発 (oppose, rebound, recover), 反' (opposition, rally, repulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は"ぱつ (oppose, opposition, rally, rebound, recover, repulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 격퇴 (Repulsing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epellingray espigón deflector o declinante (declined groyne, deflecting groyne, downstream inclined spur, repelling groyne). (various references) uzaklaştırıcı (repellent, repulsive, suspensive), savar (repellent), püskürtücü (atomizer, injector, repellent, spray, sprayer, spreader, sprinkler), nahoş (disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, graceless, grating, repellent, unlikable, unlikeable, unpleasant), itici (impulsive, projectile, propellent, propelling, propulsive, pusher, pushing, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, unattractive, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovely, unprepossessing), geçirmez (impermeable, impervious, proof, repellent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Repelling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rapeling, rapelling, repealling, rowelling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "repelling" (pronounced rupe"ling) |
| 7 | r u p e" l i ng | propelling, rappelling. |
| 5 | -p e" l i ng | compelling, dispelling, expelling, misspelling, spelling. |
| 4 | -e" l i ng | Belling, dwelling, excelling, felling, foretelling, helling, Melling, outselling, quelling, rebelling, reselling, retelling, selling, shelling, smelling, Snelling, swelling, telling, welling, yelling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rattling, raveling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, rescheduling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, settling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-n-p-r" | |
-2 letters: leering, peeling, peering, preeing, reeling. | |
-3 letters: giller, grille, lierne, linger, nellie, peeing, penile, pinger, reline, repine. | |
-4 letters: genie, genip, genre, green, grill, gripe, iller, ingle, leger, leper, liege, liger, liner, peril, plier, preen, prill, reign, renig, repeg, repel, repin, rille, ripen. | |
-5 letters: eger, erne, gene, gien, gill, girl, girn, glee, glen, gree, grin, grip. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: preselling, respelling. | |
+2 letters: reexpelling, repanelling, respellings. | |
+4 letters: overpedalling, precancelling. | |
+5 letters: electroplating, hypoallergenic, interpellating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 65 6C 6C 69 6E 67 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. . .-.. .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p e l l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0065 006C 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182717878758073 |
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