'repelled' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb meaning to push away or repel someone or something, usually with force. Example sentence: The magnets repelled each other when brought close together.
Coventry broke smartly as a Sutton free-kick was repelled, and Sedgley sent an inviting pass into the home penalty area.
Protesters broke windows and smashed glass doors in the government building, which also houses the election commission, but were repelled by riot police waiting inside.
By saying no to the current arrangement, the SDLP may even win some new supporters among the mass of disaffected out there in Northern Ireland who are repelled from the ballot box at election time because there is no alternative to vote for.
Thomson repelled wave after wave of attacks, denying Stefan Pettersson and Nilsson on a number of occasions, as he tried his best to keep United in the final.
At least 11 people were killed when Nigeria's military repelled a Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri, a day after the country's new president vowed to strengthen the defences of the key north-eastern city that was the birthplace of the militant group.
They've never been called unclean and sent to huts and baths outside their homes and villages, away from kitchens, in case they turned the bacon rancid, tainted their spouses, repelled fish and game, polluted the air and young hunters, affected the weather negatively with their gaze, bled uncontrollably, stank and became wild and dangerous.
Many are repelled by the notion of ethnicity and gender monitoring but the alternative is like setting out on a rally without a map.
The Saints pack repelled a first drive by the Saracens pack but from the second Billy Vunipola took the ball at the front of the lineout and Jackson Wray was driven over.
But the principle applies equally to wars of self-defence, as in 1967 when Israel repelled Arab attacks.
A statement, endorsed by the faction's leader, Tendai Biti, who was finance minister in a coalition government that ran Zimbabwe until the elections, accused Mr Tsvangirai of incompetence and undemocratic tendencies.Getting bolderAfghan forces repelled an attack by more than 300 militants on an army base near the Pakistani border.
So they don't worry about it as much, and are repelled by politicians who wax sanctimonious about it.I really don't know the answer, so I'll have to read the book.
