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R0168400 (rĭ-pŭl′shən)n.1. The act of repulsing or the condition of being repulsed: the repulsion of an attack on the fort.2. Extreme aversion: felt nothing but repulsion at the remark.3. Physics The force that causes particles or bodies to repel one another, as from having the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

repulsion

(rɪˈpʌlʃən) n1. a feeling of disgust or aversion2. (General Physics) physics a force tending to separate two objects, such as the force between two like electric charges or magnetic poles

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n. 1. the act of repulsing, or the state of being repulsed. 2. a feeling of distaste or aversion. 3. the force that tends to separate bodies of like electric charge or magnetic polarity. [1375–1425; < Middle French < Medieval Latin repulsiō ejection, Late Latin: refutation, derivative (with Latin -tiō -tion) of Latin repellere; see repulse]

Repulsion

the gorge rises at it To find repugnant, to hold in revulsion; to feel disgust at; to be sickened or nauseated by; to turn one’s stomach. The gorge is the craw or stomach, and, by metonymy, its contents. The phrase is yet another owing its popularity and quite possibly its origin to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. On recalling the lively wit that once inhabitated the cold, decaying skull of Yorick then in his hands, Hamlet says:

How abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. (V, i)

The expression is still frequently encountered in literary or formal writing. Webster’s Third cites a recent usage by Pearl Buck:

When he tried to eat the flesh of his ox his gorge rose.

set the teeth on edge To repel, offend, or disgust; to jar or grate on one’s nerves, to irritate or annoy. This expression is derived from an ancient proverb as evidenced in Jeremiah 31:29-30:

In those days they shall no longer say: “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

The allusion is to the unpleasant, tingling sensation caused by sour or acidic foods.

I had rather hear a brazen
canstick turn’d,
Or a dry wheel grate on the
axle-tree;
And that would set my teeth
nothing on edge,
Nothing so much as mincing
poetry.
(Shakespeare, I Henry IV, III, iii)

A variation is put the teeth on edge.

stick in the craw To be difficult to accept or reconcile; to rub the wrong way; to be irritating, offensive, or annoying. The concept of swallowing is often used metaphorically for the acceptance or rejection of ideas. In this expression, which appeared in print by the 18th century, nonacceptance is conveyed by the image of something being stuck in one’s craw (crop or gullet). Variants of this expression include stick in the gullet or crop or throat.

There is one or two things that stick in my Crop. (The Deane Papers, 1775)

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	repulsion - the force by which bodies repel one anotherrepulsive forceforce - (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"attraction, attractive force - the force by which one object attracts another
	2.	repulsion - intense aversionrepugnance, revulsion, horrordisgust - strong feelings of dislike
	3.	repulsion - the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive standstandoffstand - a defensive effort; "the army made a final stand at the Rhone"

repulsion

noun disgust, hatred, loathing, distaste, aversion, revulsion, abhorrence, repugnance, odium, detestation, disrelish She gave a shudder of repulsion.

repulsion

nounExtreme hostility and dislike:abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, detestation, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repugnancy, revulsion.

Translations

厌恶反感

repulse

(rəˈpals) verb1. to repel (an enemy). 击退2. to refuse to accept eg help from, or be friendly to. 拒绝，排斥 noun (an) act of repulsing. 拒绝repulsion (rəˈpalʃən) noun disgust. 厌恶，反感 repulsive (rəˈpalsiv) adjective horrible; disgusting. 令人厌恶的讨厌的 reˈpulsively adverb 讨厌地，冷淡地 reˈpulsiveness noun 讨厌，冷淡

repulsion

[re-pul´shun] 1. the act of driving apart or away; a force that tends to drive two bodies apart.2. in genetics, the occurrence on opposite chromosomes in a double heterozygote of the two mutant alleles of interest.

re·pul·sion

(rē-pŭl'shŭn), 1. The act of repelling or driving apart, in contrast to attraction. 2. Strong dislike; aversion; repugnance. 3. Coupling phase of genes at linked loci that are borne on opposite chromosomes. See: coupling phase. [L. re-pello, pp. -pulsus, to drive back]

re·pul·sion

(rĕ-pŭl'shŭn) 1. The act of repelling or driving apart, in contrast to attraction. 2. Strong dislike; aversion; repugnance. 3. Coupling phase of genes at linked loci that are borne on opposite chromosomes. [L. re-pello, pp. -pulsus, to drive back]

repulsion

an arrangement in a double heterozygote where a WILD TYPE allele of one gene is adjacent to a mutant allele of another gene on the same HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOME. Such an arrangement of linked genes usually is referred to as in repulsion. Compare COUPLING.

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noun disgust

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noun extreme hostility and dislike

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noun the force by which bodies repel one another

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noun intense aversion

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noun the act of repulsing or repelling an attack

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