repulse /ri-pulsˈ/

1. To drive back
2. To beat off
3. To rebuff, reject
4. To cause aversion

1. A driving back
2. A beating off
3. A check
4. A refusal
5. A rebuff

repulsion /-pulˈshən/ noun

1. Driving off
2. A repelling force, action or influence
3. Driving force, effect or influence
4. Action or effect
5. Raison d’être

repulˈsive adjective

1. That repulses or drives off
2. Repelling
3. Cold, reserved, forbidding
4. Causing aversion and disgust

repulˈsively adverb

repulˈsiveness noun

• apologia
• apologias
• apologies
• apologise
• apologised
• apologises
• apologising
• adroitnesses
• a drop in the bucket
• a drop in the ocean
• adry
• ads
• ADS
• adscititious
• adscititiously
• adscript
• adscription
• adscriptions
• adscripts
• ADSL
• adsorb
• adsorbabilities
• adsorbability
• adsorbable
• adsorbate