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revulsion
[ ri-vuhl-shuhn ]
noun
- a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike:
Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- a sudden and violent change of feeling or response in sentiment, taste, etc.
- the act of drawing something back or away.
- the fact of being so drawn.
- Medicine/Medical. the diminution of morbid action in one part of the body by irritation in another.
revulsion
/ rɪˈvʌlʃən /
noun
- a sudden and unpleasant violent reaction in feeling, esp one of extreme loathing
- the act or an instance of drawing back or recoiling from something
- obsolete.the diversion of disease or congestion from one part of the body to another by cupping, counterirritants, etc
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Derived Forms
- reˈvulsionary, adjective
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Other Words From
- re·vulsion·ary adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of revulsion1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of revulsion1
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Example Sentences
As a wave of revulsion spread across the internet, he began to backtrack.
Convergence is also gathering force in a shared revulsion for the consequences of the war on drugs.
Wizner said he understood the revulsion: The interchange looked like cheap agitprop.
“I think I would like for people to feel a mix of revulsion and attraction, that would be nice,” says Lobo.
It is a seething, boiling, roiling, apoplectic revulsion at the very idea of unions.
At that moment she heard Mr. Royall's step as he came up the stairs to bed, and a fierce revulsion of feeling swept over her.
It was with a revulsion which I cannot easily express that I now saw more or less clearly what this pursuer was like.
A dozen times he approached the door in an angry revulsion against his self-imposed test, and a dozen times passed on.
The violence of the extreme section of the popular party led to a revulsion of feeling in the country.
But it moved him now, not to the revulsion and distaste of a week ago, but only to a careless contempt.
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