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repels
verb
Third person singular of repel
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It seems Farage does well galvanising the convinced, but repels everyone else.
The blood repels Herrick.
The left has about a quarter of the seats in Congress, but many of its congressmen have little patience with AMLO, whose magnetic personality repels as many voters as it attracts.The government may also face opposition outside Congress.
But the influence of Christian evangelicals, especially from America, matched by their counterparts from Muslim countries, may have had the opposite effect.Homosexuality fascinates many Africans as much as it repels.
Mr Rawlings can still wow a crowd but he repels as many people as he attracts.
But the magnetic Mr López Obrador repels as many people as he attracts.He also helped to thwart attempts to unite the anti-PRI vote.
Centrist Republicans who favour immigration reform (not least because yelling about "amnesty" repels Hispanic voters) fret that Mr Obama is going to awaken their party's angry nativists but it is hardly the president's job to save Republicans from themselves.
Mr LePage must hope that his plain speaking enthuses more conservatives than it repels swing voters.
Its hero is a revered warrior-king played by an army captain—warrior-king playedpying byrmese anmy armyrestores national pride.
The big suppliers are Novartis, a Swiss-based maker of a maize seed that repels nasty corn-borers; and Monsanto, an American firm that produces herbicide-resistant soyabean seed.
And if too much talk of immigration leaves white Britons cool, it positively repels others.
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