Clues for the word "REPEL"
We've had 113 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 518 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 10, 2026.
Definition of repel
- v. t. - To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
- v. t. - To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.
- v. i. - To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
Referring Clues
- Gross out
- Force back
- Run off
- Drive away
- Keep off
- Ward off
- Discourage
- Throw off
- Oppose
- Drive back
- Push off
- Fight off
- Successfully defend
- Turn off
- Blast with bug spray
- Chase away
- Beat back
- Turn away
- Fend off
- Turn back
- Disgust
- Push back
- Act like bug spray
- Function like bug spray
- Fend off, as mosquitoes
- Stave off
- Drive off
- What like poles do
- Resist effectively
- Rebuff
- Hold off
- Like poles do it
- Push away
- Spurn
- What like magnets do
- Force away
- Cast away
- Alienate
- Keep at bay
- Parry
- Aptly named bug spray
- Keep away
- Thrust back
- What like charges do
- Push back, as an attack
- Sicken
- Propulse
- Popular anti-mosquito spray
- Act like a magnet?
- Fail to mix with
- Withstand
- Opposite of attract
- Brush aside
- Chase away, as bugs
- Shake off
- Keep away, as mosquitoes
- What like-pole magnets do
- What like magnetic poles do
- Revolt
- Fight off, drive back
- Repulse
- Fill with distaste
- Be repulsive as you stagger round the piano
- Drive away quietly during the dance
- Drive off and swim round the pierhead
- Offend sick person being laid up
- Being quiet during dance will be off-putting
- Outcast reflects on what he does
- Do something repulsive
- Put off - disgust
- Ward off with shortened sword held in both hands
- Force back partner's head in dance
- Check the advance of a sick man's comeback
- Check phosphorus in rock
- Stagger about quietly in disgust
- Put off one with disease returning
- Reject and reject one rejected
- What similarly charged magnetic poles do
- Do this to an outcast
- Drive off quietly in middle of dance
- Be disgusting, quietly breaking wind
- Disgust at rejection of someone with skin disease
- Some contrary people persuaded to drive off
- Drive back from dance bypassing centre of Memphis
- Be resistant to pressure during dance
- Disgust agent felt, deprived of tips
- Put off sick person getting up
- Be magnetic?
- Drive back so as to swim around the pierhead
- Agent the Spanish hold off
- Force to retreat
- Drive back to dance round piano
- Resist
- Fight back
- Be repulsive in a dance round the piano
- Stagger round the piano being repulsive?
- Rebuff, as an attack
- Reject revolutionary outcast
- Drive back to swim around the pierhead
- Swim round the pierhead and drive off
- Rebuff despite a promising start in the dance
- Drive back and swim round the pierhead
- Dance round the piano, then drive off
- Attract's opposite
- What matching ends of magnets do
- Be repulsive as you dance round the piano
- For coppers to stagger around is a repulsive thing to do!
- Put off
- Act like some poles
- Parking in turn, as you drive off
- Drive away, as ants
- What identical poles on magnets do
- Deter
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 10, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 08, 2026
- LA Times - April 04, 2026
- LA Times - March 31, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 24, 2026
- LA Times - March 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 03, 2026
- Daily American - February 03, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 12, 2026
- LA Times - December 21, 2025
- New York Times - December 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 16, 2025
- New York Times - November 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 26, 2025
- New York Times - November 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 30, 2025
- New York Times - October 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2025
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