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ruaig — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • attack verb To use violent force against a person or place.
  • banish verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
  • dispel verb To make fears, doubts, or false ideas disappear by showing they have no basis.
  • disperse verb To scatter or spread out in different directions.
  • expel verb To force someone out of a place, group, or organization, often as punishment.
  • repel verb To drive back or fight off an attack or attacker.
  • repulse verb To drive back an attack or attacker.
  • rout noun A crushing, disorganized defeat.

Senses

ruaig is used for these senses in English:

  • attack (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
  • attack An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
  • dispel (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
  • dispel (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
  • disperse (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
  • drive away (idiomatic) To force someone or something to leave
  • drive out (idiomatic) To push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere.
  • expel (transitive) To eject.

attack — full definition

  1. verb To use violent force against a person or place.
  2. verb To criticize someone or something harshly in words.
  3. verb To begin dealing with a task or problem with energy and determination.
  4. noun A violent or aggressive act intended to harm.
  5. noun A sudden episode of illness or pain.

banish — full definition

  1. verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
  2. verb To drive an unwanted thought or feeling from one's mind.

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