Like and Repel

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Like verb - To wish to have.

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Repel and like are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Repel" instead a verb "Like".

Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

Repel verb - To drive back.

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Like and repel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Like" instead a verb "Repel".

Nearby Words: repelled, repelling

character	like character	repel character
man	like man	repel man
people	like people	repel people
time	like time	repel time
Other words: magic, anyone, humans, women, girls.

And their leader Vector, just like Unus above, can repel things— eventually he repels the air around him so he suffocates, then he repels Earth itself and shoots out into space.

Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Comic Books
Scrameustache's home planet is protected by a massive one to repel the war-like Kromoks who live on one of the planet's moon.

Source: Comic Book / The Scrameustache
In reality, magnets will only repel other magnets, and only when their like poles are facing each other.

Source: Hollywood Magnetism

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