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Repel

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to drive something back, or to cause disgust and keep something at a distance
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Stage 1 of 2
repellere
Latin · ancient
"to drive back"
to drive back, from re- (back) and pellere (to drive)
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Stage 2 of 2
repel
English · 1400s
"to drive something back or keep it at a distance"
settled as the English word for driving something back or away
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