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Definition: Repugn |
RepugnVerb1. To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repugn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
Synonyms: RepugnSynonyms: contend (v), contest (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Resistance | Verb: resist; not submit; repugn, reluct, reluctate, withstand; stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold firm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Repugn |
| English words defined with "repugn": Re-. (references) |
| 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 |
repugn | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "repugn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repulse, return, throw out), se opune (antagonize, balk, baulk, contravene, counter, oppose, stand, take exception to, traverse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "repugn": repugnance, repugnances, repugnancies, repugnancy, repugnant, repugnantly, repugned, repugning, repugns. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: prune, purge, unpeg. | |
-2 letters: genu, grue, pung, pure, rune, rung, urge. | |
-3 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, gnu, gun, peg, pen, per, pug, pun, pur, reg, rep, rue, rug, run, urn. | |
-4 letters: en, er, ne, nu, pe, re, un, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: plunger, repugns. | |
+2 letters: erupting, expunger, gunpaper, impugner, oppugner, perusing, plungers, prevuing, pureeing, replunge, repugned, reputing, resprung, speargun, supering, unpurged. | |
+3 letters: bumpering, expungers, gunpapers, gunpowder, impugners, newsgroup, oppugners, paupering, perduring, perfuming, perfusing, perjuring, permuting, precuring, preluding, presuming, puckering, purveying, puttering, recouping, replunged, replunges, repouring, repugnant, repugning, repulsing, repumping, spearguns, supergene, ungrouped, upbearing, uprearing, uptearing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 75 67 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. ..- --. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01110101 01100111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p u g n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0075 0067 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182877380 |
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