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🚫 A device that drives away 🙅 A person who repels
repeller

repeller

1 5.2
A thing like a spray or machine that keeps pests away from a place
  • noun
  • /rɪˈpɛlər/
translation icon : repelente
  • The bug repeller makes you invisible to them by interfering with their sensory suite.
  • sonic repeller
  • bug repeller

Examples

  • Equipped with new technology, this pest repeller uses electromagnetic waves to keep critters away.

  • IU's "Marshmallow" The next guaranteed zombie-repeller MV is IU's "Marshmallow."

    Blog text (22)

  • Lando killed speed and fired the ship's repellers.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Sonic bug repeller.

    Meet the Applegates (1990)

  • Lando killed speed, switched to repellers, and felt the landing jacks thump down a few moments later.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Well, do you know why everybody has AAA cleaners and AAA like Insect Repeller Company and AAA Carpet cleaners?

  • Then, as the NAVCOMP announced that the rendezvous point was coming up, Lando cut power, dropped the flaps, and fired the ship's repellers.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Lando fired the ship's repellers as The Tink came under the influence of the larger vessel's powerful argrav generators.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • One reader sent Contessa Korper a set of ultrasonic repellers to help with her cockroach infestation.

Synonyms

expeller
vsrepeller
  • Specialized
7.7

A machine or person that presses seeds to get oil

keeps things at a distance rather than forcing them out
repulser
vsrepeller
8.2

A person or thing that forces attackers to move back

keeps things at a distance rather than fighting or defeating attackers

Antonyms

attractor
  • Specialized
3 9.9

A pattern that a system moves toward over time no matter where it starts

How Repelling

wall
∞ 1.0
barrier
163 2.8
repeller
1 5.2
repellent
18 4.2
deterrent
66 6.6

Surface Forms

repeller singular
repellers plural

Morphology

repeller = repel (transparent) = repel + er

Standard agent/device nominalization from the verb 'repel' (repel + -er) with meaning directly derived: something that repels.

Etymology

Repeller comes from repel, which has re- 'back' and pellere 'to drive', the same idea you see in expel or propel. So a repeller is something that 'drives back' pests or keeps them away.