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repellent

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repellent

Anything whose smell, taste, or other properties discourages nearby creatures. Insect repellent is usually a chemical substance that keeps, for example, mosquitoes at bay; natural substances include citronella, lavender oil, and eucalyptus oils. A device that emits ultrasound waves is also claimed to repel insects and small mammals.

The bitter-tasting denatonium saccharide may be added to medicines to prevent consumption by children, and to plastic garbage bags to repel foraging animals.
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Without being particularly ungracious or repellent in manner or speech, he managed somehow to be immune to impertinent curiosity, yet exempt from the evil repute with which it commonly revenges itself when baffled; so far as I know, Mr.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Elton being the adoration of all the teachers and great girls in the school; and it must be at Hartfield only that she could have any chance of hearing him spoken of with cooling moderation or repellent truth.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and repellent.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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