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
- verb To use violent force against a person or place.
- verb To criticize someone or something harshly in words.
- verb To begin dealing with a task or problem with energy and determination.
- noun A violent or aggressive act intended to harm.
- noun A sudden episode of illness or pain.
banish — full definition
- verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
- verb To drive an unwanted thought or feeling from one's mind.