Repel

There are plants that repel insects.

The people could repel the invasion.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

I call the living, I mourn the dead, I repel lightning.

Marigolds repel nematodes, as well as some humans who don't like the way they smell.

If I bow before the authority of the specialists and avow my readiness to follow, to a certain extent and as long as may seem to me necessary, their indications and even their directions, it is because their authority is imposed upon me by no one, neither by men nor by God. Otherwise I would repel them with horror, and bid the devil take their counsels, their directions, and their services, certain that they would make me pay, by the loss of my liberty and self-respect, for such scraps of truth, wrapped in a multitude of lies, as they might give me.

Chemist Charles Cantrell analyzed properties of the smoke and identified a number of active compounds that repel insects, including — for the first time, he says — triglycerides, a type of fat.

Stefan and his men managed to repel the enemy.

Without the strong force, protons would repel each other.

It is some satisfaction to him that is repelled, that dignities, honours, offices, are not alwayes given by desert or worth, but for love, affinitie, friendship, affection, great mens letters, or as commonly they are bought and sold.