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Definition of repulse in English: repulseverb rɪˈpʌlsrəˈpəls [with object]1Drive back (an attack or attacker) by force. rioters tried to storm the Ministry but were repulsed by police Example sentencesExamples - The next day the Greeks have a pop at Troy itself but the mighty Trojan army repulses them (Achilles not fighting in this one).
- He assisted General Yigael Yadin in repulsing the attacks on Israel and the attacks by the Arab nations getting desired results.
- Even as the British army repulses the French at almost every turn, the British navy's task seems harder since it is short of men.
- Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
- It was due to the fact that the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942 had led the Wehrmacht's 302nd Infantry Division, which had repulsed the attack, to draw up a how-not-to manual of coastal landings.
- After repulsing an attempted invasion by Italian forces in 1940, Greece was occupied by the Germans in World War II, and the country suffered bitter fighting between rival factions of communists and royalists.
- Against all odds, they succeeded first in repulsing the original attack and then in holding the enemy at bay for almost two weeks while being besieged without re-supply.
- The muddy ground delayed them and gave the French gunners time to rally and repulse the first attack.
- Finally the firing dwindled; the charge had been repulsed.
- This iron Phalanx repulses the wave of Trojan attackers.
- The festival to the Lady of the Realm, so the accounts go, was inaugurated after she extended her protection to a Vietnamese general who was repulsing an attack by the Cambodian enemy.
- They fight into the waning sun until the enemy is repulsed.
- After repulsing Italy, the Austrians then sent reinforcements to the north, which is where Wawro then takes his book.
Synonyms repel, drive back, drive away, fight back, fight off, put to flight, force back, beat off, beat back, push back, thrust back ward off, hold off, stave off, fend off foil, check, frustrate British see off informal send packing archaic rebut - 1.1 Reject or rebuff (an approach or offer or the person making it)
she left, feeling hurt because she had been repulsed Example sentencesExamples - Lotus had been repulsed when the poor fool approached her to grab her colorful robe.
- She just wants me to humiliate myself by repulsing Charlie.
- Penniless and without protection, Pamela is pursued by Mr B., Lady B.'s son, but she repulses him and remains determined to retain her chastity and her unsullied conscience.
- Olumer stifled a groan and wondered how he had managed to attract her attention instead of repulsing her, which had been the general idea.
Synonyms rebuff, reject, spurn, snub, disdain, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder informal give someone the brush-off, freeze out, stiff-arm British informal knock back North American informal give someone the bum's rush, give someone the brush Australian informal snout informal, dated give someone the go-by reject, turn down, refuse, decline, say no to informal give the thumbs down to
2Cause to feel intense distaste and aversion. audiences were repulsed by the film's brutality Example sentencesExamples - And a number of the stories couple difficult content with a very lyrical style which, I think, makes a reader feel pulled between being repulsed by the text and attracted to it.
- These films regale as they repulse, hitting the gag reflex and the funny bone simultaneously.
- Barry is repulsed by Tosser's Little Englander mentality, but beggars can't be choosers, and he knows that unless he can raise some cash quick the bailiff will be moving in on him, his business and his unsuspecting wife.
- One is the audience of people who are obviously repulsed by these sort of images and people meant to be scared by it and that's the reason they're putting this tape up.
- The thought of even being seen with you repulses me.
- Bound feet: Wang Lung is disappointed and repulsed when he realizes that O-lan's feet are not bound.
- Even the thought of killing didn't repulse me the way it used to, although I still refrained from that particular method of retrieving my money.
- Meursault is repulsed by Raymond's scruffy appearance.
- Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
- The party leader, Trevor Sargent, told a Young Greens conference in Galway that ‘even the most enthusiastic of young voters’ had been repulsed by the sleaze exposed at the tribunals.
- For a while, however, most Americans seemed repulsed by what their country had become during the war, and refused to have anything to do with Wilson's messianic world agenda.
- Giamatti doesn't want any part of the carousing, mostly because he thinks it will lead to more rejection, but he pretends he's morally repulsed.
- In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked.
- Our analysis confirmed that many 1932 moviegoers were repulsed by the film, but whether that translated to even more negative attitudes toward people with disabilities is unclear.
- She was not flattered by Mr. Elton's confession, only repulsed at this inferior man daring to address the fine Miss Woodhouse in such a manner.
- Many Americans are instinctively repulsed by the idea.
- I'm sure Straw Dogs is rather unpopular with the feminist community, and I find myself repulsed by the film for the same reason.
- Indeed, Catherine is repulsed by David's African stories, and her hysterical outburst against them is imbued with racist assumptions.
- When Enid meets Seymour, she's at first repulsed, but then curious - here is a guy who is, as she states, ‘the exact opposite of everything I hate.’
- People are repulsed at the idea of limiting the amount of children someone can have, despite the fact that our schools, health care, and planet itself simply cannot support us.
Synonyms revolt, disgust, repel, sicken, nauseate, make someone feel sick, turn someone's stomach, be repulsive to, be extremely distasteful to, make shudder, be repugnant to, make someone's flesh creep, make someone's skin crawl, make someone's gorge rise, offend, horrify informal turn off, give someone the creeps, make someone want to throw up North American informal gross out
noun rɪˈpʌlsrəˈpəls mass noun1The action of driving back an attack or of being driven back. the repulse of the invaders Synonyms repelling, driving back, putting to flight warding off, holding off defeat, check, foiling, frustration rare repulsion - 1.1count noun A discouraging response to an offer or approach.
his evasion of her scheme had been another repulse Synonyms rebuff, rejection, snub, slight, repudiation, spurning, cold-shouldering, discouragement informal brush-off, knock-back, kick in the teeth, slap/smack in the face, smack in the eye
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin repuls- 'driven back', from the verb repellere (see repel). Definition of repulse in US English: repulseverbrəˈpəlsrəˈpəls [with object]1Drive back (an attack or attacking enemy) by force. rioters tried to storm ministry buildings but were repulsed by police Example sentencesExamples - The next day the Greeks have a pop at Troy itself but the mighty Trojan army repulses them (Achilles not fighting in this one).
- After repulsing Italy, the Austrians then sent reinforcements to the north, which is where Wawro then takes his book.
- The festival to the Lady of the Realm, so the accounts go, was inaugurated after she extended her protection to a Vietnamese general who was repulsing an attack by the Cambodian enemy.
- Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
- He assisted General Yigael Yadin in repulsing the attacks on Israel and the attacks by the Arab nations getting desired results.
- It was due to the fact that the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942 had led the Wehrmacht's 302nd Infantry Division, which had repulsed the attack, to draw up a how-not-to manual of coastal landings.
- After repulsing an attempted invasion by Italian forces in 1940, Greece was occupied by the Germans in World War II, and the country suffered bitter fighting between rival factions of communists and royalists.
- Finally the firing dwindled; the charge had been repulsed.
- Against all odds, they succeeded first in repulsing the original attack and then in holding the enemy at bay for almost two weeks while being besieged without re-supply.
- They fight into the waning sun until the enemy is repulsed.
- This iron Phalanx repulses the wave of Trojan attackers.
- Even as the British army repulses the French at almost every turn, the British navy's task seems harder since it is short of men.
- The muddy ground delayed them and gave the French gunners time to rally and repulse the first attack.
Synonyms repel, drive back, drive away, fight back, fight off, put to flight, force back, beat off, beat back, push back, thrust back - 1.1 Fail to welcome (friendly advances or the person making them); rebuff.
she left, feeling hurt because she had been repulsed Example sentencesExamples - Olumer stifled a groan and wondered how he had managed to attract her attention instead of repulsing her, which had been the general idea.
- Lotus had been repulsed when the poor fool approached her to grab her colorful robe.
- Penniless and without protection, Pamela is pursued by Mr B., Lady B.'s son, but she repulses him and remains determined to retain her chastity and her unsullied conscience.
- She just wants me to humiliate myself by repulsing Charlie.
Synonyms rebuff, reject, spurn, snub, disdain, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder reject, turn down, refuse, decline, say no to - 1.2 Refuse to accept (an offer)
his bid for the company was repulsed
2usually be repulsedCause (someone) to feel intense distaste and aversion. audiences at early screenings of the film were repulsed by its brutality Example sentencesExamples - Giamatti doesn't want any part of the carousing, mostly because he thinks it will lead to more rejection, but he pretends he's morally repulsed.
- Our analysis confirmed that many 1932 moviegoers were repulsed by the film, but whether that translated to even more negative attitudes toward people with disabilities is unclear.
- One is the audience of people who are obviously repulsed by these sort of images and people meant to be scared by it and that's the reason they're putting this tape up.
- Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
- She was not flattered by Mr. Elton's confession, only repulsed at this inferior man daring to address the fine Miss Woodhouse in such a manner.
- These films regale as they repulse, hitting the gag reflex and the funny bone simultaneously.
- Bound feet: Wang Lung is disappointed and repulsed when he realizes that O-lan's feet are not bound.
- Even the thought of killing didn't repulse me the way it used to, although I still refrained from that particular method of retrieving my money.
- I'm sure Straw Dogs is rather unpopular with the feminist community, and I find myself repulsed by the film for the same reason.
- Barry is repulsed by Tosser's Little Englander mentality, but beggars can't be choosers, and he knows that unless he can raise some cash quick the bailiff will be moving in on him, his business and his unsuspecting wife.
- And a number of the stories couple difficult content with a very lyrical style which, I think, makes a reader feel pulled between being repulsed by the text and attracted to it.
- People are repulsed at the idea of limiting the amount of children someone can have, despite the fact that our schools, health care, and planet itself simply cannot support us.
- When Enid meets Seymour, she's at first repulsed, but then curious - here is a guy who is, as she states, ‘the exact opposite of everything I hate.’
- In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked.
- For a while, however, most Americans seemed repulsed by what their country had become during the war, and refused to have anything to do with Wilson's messianic world agenda.
- The party leader, Trevor Sargent, told a Young Greens conference in Galway that ‘even the most enthusiastic of young voters’ had been repulsed by the sleaze exposed at the tribunals.
- The thought of even being seen with you repulses me.
- Indeed, Catherine is repulsed by David's African stories, and her hysterical outburst against them is imbued with racist assumptions.
- Meursault is repulsed by Raymond's scruffy appearance.
- Many Americans are instinctively repulsed by the idea.
Synonyms revolt, disgust, repel, sicken, nauseate, make someone feel sick, turn someone's stomach, be repulsive to, be extremely distasteful to, make shudder, be repugnant to, make someone's flesh creep, make someone's skin crawl, make someone's gorge rise, offend, horrify
nounrəˈpəlsrəˈpəls 1The action of driving back an attacking force or of being driven back. the repulse of the invaders Synonyms repelling, driving back, putting to flight - 1.1 A discouraging response to friendly advances.
his evasion of her plan had been another repulse Synonyms rebuff, rejection, snub, slight, repudiation, spurning, cold-shouldering, discouragement
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin repuls- ‘driven back’, from the verb repellere (see repel). |