force back

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verb

cause to move back by force or influence
- repel the enemy
- push back the urge to smoke
- beat back the invaders
• Syn:
repel, drive, repulse, push back, beat back
• Ant:
attract (for: repel)
• Derivationally related forms:
push back (for: push back), repulse (for: repulse), repulsion (for: repulse), drive (for: drive), repulsive (for: repel)
• Hypernyms:
push, force
• Verb Group:
drive
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP