Word Frequency
repulse (rɪˈpʌls
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Definitions
verb
- to drive back or ward off (an attacking force); repel; rebuff
- to reject with coldness or discourtesy ⇒
she repulsed his advances
- to produce a feeling of aversion or distaste
noun
- the act or an instance of driving back or warding off; rebuff
- a cold discourteous rejection or refusal
Derived Forms
reˈpulser nounSome people think that the use of repulse in sentences such as he was repulsed by what he saw is incorrect and that the correct word is repel
Word Origin
C16: from Latin repellere to drive back, repelExample Sentences Including 'repulse'
"These are hard-wired people with a sexual interest in children or else this stuff would repulse them like it does the rest of the world.Edmonton Sun (2003)
01 October 2004 Rubber, rips, studs, safety-pins: as a look, punk was designed to repulse and offend.Times, Sunday Times (2004)
I wondered whether it was to make herself less sexually attractive to me, to try and repulse me.THE EXECUTION (2002)
The Guardian gloated that Blair singing'The Red Flag ' would repulse the party's'middle England mindset' and, by implication, Britain's too.Spiked (2003)
The ritual can also be used to seal an individual's aura temporarily, to guard against energy loss or repulse psychic attack.Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
Though I couldn't repulse the inevitable blush, my instincts told me to go all out for irony.MUSIC FOR BOYS (2003)
`Go away, you horrid man," she said, but she did not actually repulse me.Times, Sunday Times (2005)
`Who was invading, that the king and his advisors wanted to repulse ?Time of the Wolf
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