repellent
തള്ളുന്ന
definition
noun
a flea repellent
a substance that dissuades particular insects or other pests from approaching or settling.
treat brick with a silicone water repellent
a substance used to treat something, especially fabric or stone, so as to make it impervious to water.
adjective
water-repellent nylon
able to repel a particular thing; impervious to a particular substance.
the idea was slightly repellent to her
causing disgust or distaste.
translation of 'repellent'
adjective
തള്ളുന്ന
example
That enterprise led to what I thought was a particularly 'repellent' burst of American / European chauvinism - a fantasy that there was nothing there before the Europeans arrived.
And Flaus is marvellous in the role, making the eccentric, 'repellent' Krapp a sympathetic figure.
A few days later, a 12-year-old boy in Florida sprayed his hand with insect 'repellent' then lit it and ended up burning himself.
‘This new 'repellent' chemistry affords flexibility and choice for protection against a variety of disease vectors,’ says Klun.
National pride can be a 'repellent' trait in musicians, but Davies throws you off balance here.
Then, with 'repellent' images of disgust, he urges his mother to cease all sexual relations with Claudius.
This site-specific installation collectively and individually embodies a 'repellent' familiarity.
There is an especially 'repellent' quotation highlighted in episcopal purple on the back cover.
Billy Bob Thornton is brilliantly 'repellent' as a depressed, alcoholic, obscenity-spouting, safe-cracking department store Santa.
As a film, it makes for difficult, almost 'repellent' viewing.
Avoid using electronic 'repellent' devices, mothballs or other unregistered products.
Irrigate the area to be treated with 1/2 inch of water before applying the 'repellent' solution and follow with 1 inch or more of water.
Despite their 'repellent' condition, they resemble ancient Britons.
Oil is generating plenty of income, while productivity is often abysmal and the quality of local products 'repellent' .
The first third of the film intrigues us in a way that the remaining, explicitly 'repellent' two thirds completely obliterates.
You can even make your own natural insect 'repellent' with a little liquid soap, powdered cayenne pepper, onion, garlic, and water mixed in a spray bottle.
The 'repellent' nature of this image evokes the almost primitive disgust that Nixon was able to elicit from his liberal enemies.
The 'repellent' agent cannot gain anything from the washing materials agent.
Where paint is applied, the woolly material takes on a tacky, 'repellent' quality.
But aside from Edith Massey's masterful turn as Queen Charlotta, the whole 'repellent' realm makes little sense.
Jerry also works the streets, pimping his old lady Stella to raise the cash to buy smack from the 'repellent' drug lord, Fats.
The brutal indifference, the unfeeling isolation of each in his private interest becomes the more 'repellent' and offensive, the more these individuals are crowded together, within a limited space.
Uské's freakishness itself is still an oddity that nags one's curiosity, no matter how 'repellant' he is.
Aside from the blunt-edged rockers, Smitten features an equally 'repellant' set of languid piano pop.
Everyone else, besides Ko and Nick, breathed in the air and guffawed 'repellently' .
His work grew from earlier research by scientists in Beltsville, Maryland, who discovered a family of natural sugar esters that act as 'repellents' to insects.
Precautions include the use of insect 'repellants' , insecticide room sprays, mosquito netting, and screened windows.
Preliminary studies have shown that granular materials containing castor oil have been less effective than liquid 'repellents' .
As a result, the metamorphic forms have a simultaneously 'repellant' and enticing effect.
To have occasional draconian enforcement might provide sufficient 'repellence' , but is hardly the way to build justice.
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