Offend vs. Repel

Difference Between Offend and Repel
Offend➦
To cause displeasure, anger, resentment, or wounded feelings in
We were offended by his tasteless jokes.
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Repel➦
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Offend➦
To be displeasing or disagreeable to
Onions offend my sense of smell.
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Repel➦
To ward off or keep away; drive back
repel insects.
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Offend➦
To result in displeasure
Bad manners may offend.
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Repel➦
To offer resistance to; fight against
repel an invasion.
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Offend➦
To violate a moral or divine law; sin.
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Repel➦
To refuse to accept or submit to; reject
a company that was trying to repel a hostile takeover.
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Offend➦
To violate a rule or law
offended against the curfew.
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Repel➦
To refuse to accept (someone); spurn.
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Offend➦
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
Your accusations offend me deeply.
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Repel➦
To cause aversion or distaste in
Your rudeness repels everyone. See Usage Note at repulse.
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Offend➦
(intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.
Don't worry. I don't offend easily.
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Repel➦
To be resistant to; be incapable of absorbing or mixing with
Oil repels water.
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Offend➦
(transitive) To physically harm, pain.
Strong light offends the eye.
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Repel➦
(Physics) To present an opposing force to; push back or away from by a force
Electric charges of the same sign repel one another.
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Offend➦
(transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
Physically enjoyable frivolity can still offend the conscience
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Repel➦
To offer a resistant force to something.
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Offend➦
(intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
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Repel➦
To cause aversion or distaste
behavior that repels.
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Offend➦
(transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
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Repel➦
To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
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Offend➦
To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
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Repel➦
(transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
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Offend➦
To strike against; to attack; to assail.
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Repel➦
(transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
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Offend➦
To displease; to make angry; to affront.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city.
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Repel➦
(transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
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Offend➦
To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.
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Repel➦
To force away by means of a repulsive force.
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Offend➦
To transgress; to violate; to sin against.
Marry, sir, he hath offended the law.
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Repel➦
(transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.
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Offend➦
To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
Who hath you misboden or offended.
If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out . . . And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.
Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.
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Repel➦
To save (a shot).
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Offend➦
To transgress the moral or divine law; to commit a crime; to stumble; to sin.
Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
If it be a sin to covet honor,I am the most offending soul alive.
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Repel➦
To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide.
They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly.
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Offend➦
To cause dislike, anger, or vexation; to displease.
I shall offend, either to detain or give it.
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Repel➦
To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.
[He] gently repelled their entreaties.
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Offend➦
cause to feel resentment or indignation;
Her tactless remark offended me
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Repel➦
To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
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Offend➦
act in disregard of laws and rules;
offend all laws of humanity
violate the basic laws or human civilization
break a law
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Repel➦
cause to move back by force or influence;
repel the enemy
push back the urge to smoke
beat back the invaders
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Offend➦
strike with disgust or revulsion;
The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends
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Repel➦
be repellent to; cause aversion in
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Offend➦
hurt the feelings of;
She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
This remark really bruised me ego
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Repel➦
force or drive back;
repel the attacker
fight off the onslaught
rebuff the attack
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Repel➦
reject outright and bluntly;
She snubbed his proposal
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Repel➦
fill with distaste;
This spoilt food disgusts me
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