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repugn

/rəˈpjuːn/

repugn verb: to oppose or resist.

Verb

repugn (third-person singular simple present repugns, present participle repugning, simple past and past participle repugned)

  1. (archaic) To oppose or resist

repugn meaning in Urdu and Bengali

repugn in Urdu

مخالفت کرنا, ٹھکرانا

repugn in Bengali

বিরোধিতা করা, প্রতিরোধ করা

Forms of repugn

third-person singular presentrepugns
present participlerepugning
past participlerepugned
pastrepugned

Origin of repugn

Latin repugno.

Words formed from repugn

Words that rhyme with repugn

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Questions about repugn

What does repugn mean?
Repugn means to oppose or resist.
What is repugn in Urdu?
Repugn in Urdu is مخالفت کرنا, ٹھکرانا. See Repugn meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is repugn?
Repugn is a verb.
How do you pronounce repugn?
Repugn is pronounced /rəˈpjuːn/.
What is the past tense of repugn?
The past tense of repugn is repugned.

Words near repugn in the dictionary

  1. repuff
  2. repuffed
  3. repuffing
  4. repuffs
  5. repug
  6. repugn
  7. repugnable
  8. repugnance
  9. repugnances
  10. repugnancies
  11. repugnancy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repugn (page history and authors); repugn (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repugn (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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