Synonyms of the word

repel

• v. (now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
• v. To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
• v. To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
• v. To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
• v. (physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
• v. To cause repulsion, cause dislike.
• v. (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).

defend

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
• v. (transitive) To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
• v. (transitive) To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
• v. (transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
• v. (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing…
• v. (sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did…
• v. (poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.

disdain

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
• n. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
• v. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

disgust

• v. To cause an intense dislike for something.
• n. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

displease

• v. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend;…
• v. To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
• v. To give displeasure or offense.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

excite

• v. (transitive) To stir the emotions of.
• v. (transitive) To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate.
• v. (transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron…
• v. To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

force

• n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
• n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
• n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
• n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
• n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
• n. (law) Legal validity.
• n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
• n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
• v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
• v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
• v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
• v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
• v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
• v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
• v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
• v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
• v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
• v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
• n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
• v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

oppose

• v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc…
• v. To object to.
• v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
• v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
• v. To compete with; to strive against.

pooh-pooh

• v. (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

rebuff

• n. A sudden resistance or refusal.
• n. Repercussion, or beating back.
• v. To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
• v. To buff again.

reject

• v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
• v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
• n. Something that is rejected.
• n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

repulse

• v. to repel or drive back.
• v. to reject or rebuff.
• v. to cause revulsion.
• n. the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
• n. refusal, rejection or repulsion.

revolt

• v. To rebel, particularly against authority.
• v. To repel greatly.
• v. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
• v. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
• v. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
• n. an act of revolt.

scorn

• v. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
• v. (intransitive) To scoff, express contempt.
• v. (transitive) To reject, turn down.
• v. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
• n. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
• n. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
• n. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

snub

• adj. Conspicuously short.
• adj. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
• n. A deliberate affront or slight.
• n. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
• n. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
• v. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
• v. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
• v. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
• v. (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure…
• v. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
• v. To sob with convulsions.

spurn

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
• v. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
• v. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
• n. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
• n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
• n. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
• n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

stimulate

• v. To encourage into action.
• v. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

stir

• v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
• v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
• v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
• v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
• v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
• v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
• n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
• n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
• n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
• n. (slang) Jail; prison.