Matching Words
7056 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Repulsing
- verb - be repellent to; cause aversion in
- cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
- force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
Repulsion
- noun - intense aversion
- the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- the force by which bodies repel one another
Repulsive
- adjective - offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
- possessing the ability to repel; "a repulsive force"
- revolting
- so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"
Requiring
- verb - consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
- have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
- make someone do something
- require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
Requisite
- adjective - anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
- necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful"
Requiting
- verb - make repayment for or return something
Rereading
- verb - read anew; read again; "He re-read her letters to him"
Rerouting
- unknown - 1. To send along by another route or way.
2. To make another way.
Rerunning
- verb - broadcast again, as of a film
- cause to perform again; "We have to rerun the subjects--they misunderstood the instructions"
- rerun a performance of a play, for example
- run again for office; "Bush wants to rerun in 1996"
Rescaling
- verb - establish on a new scale