repulse.
To repel or drive back.
Meaning & usage
To repel or drive back.
to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy
To reject or rebuff.
to repulse a suitor
To cause revulsion in; to repel.
The smell of rotting food repulsed me.
I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English repulsen, a learned borrowing from Latin repulsus, from repellō. For spelling, as in pulse, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else, false, convulse.
The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
Refusal, rejection or repulsion.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English repulse, borrowed from Old French repulse, from Latin repulsa (petītiō), from repellō.
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