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repulsion
[ ri-puhl-shuhn ]
repulsion
/ rɪˈpʌlʃən /
noun
- a feeling of disgust or aversion
- physics a force tending to separate two objects, such as the force between two like electric charges or magnetic poles
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- inter·re·pulsion noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of repulsion1
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Example Sentences
Repulsion by Polanski is one of my real inspirations of several of his films.
My dad and Carlos had another thing in common: their repulsion at sentimentality.
Better for all of us that it dies a natural death from simple repulsion and lack of interest.
Seeing it gave me the same feeling of unease and repulsion I had whenever witnessing self-flagellation.
Then anger stirred in him, and quenched the sorrow with which at first he had marked the signs of her repulsion.
But there are other laws, the power of repulsion, for instance, whose omission would be equally fatal.
Mr. Peck leaned over the corpse, revealing none of the repulsion that Ward was sure he would exhibit.
He would have seized her, but a quick, passionate gesture of repulsion kept him back.
A shiver of repulsion, for him and his killings, ran over her.
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