repulsion
Origin of repulsion
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- in·ter·re·pul·sion, noun
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How to use repulsion in a sentence
On November 17, A24 released Horror Caviar, a cookbook that exploits and embraces our conflicting repulsion and craving for food as horror.
With Cookbook ‘Horror Caviar,’ A24 Brings Terror to the Kitchen | Madeleine Davies | November 18, 2021 | EaterSuch descriptions imply a sort of simultaneous repulsion and attraction.
That event unlocked an unprecedented global wave of rage and repulsion.
For generations, African Americans have led global antiracist movements | Brenda Plummer | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostAmino acid chains collapse—or fold—into a structure based on electrochemical rules of attraction and repulsion between molecules.
Know when to fold ’em: How a company best known for playing games used A.I. to solve one of biology’s greatest mysteries | Jeremy Kahn | November 30, 2020 | Fortunerepulsion 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.
My Father Sergio Muñoz Bata’s Friendship With Novelist Carlos Fuentes | Lorenza Muñoz | May 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBetter for all of us that it dies a natural death from simple repulsion and lack of interest.
Boycott the Cross-Dressing Show! ABC’s New Sitcom ‘Work It’ Doesn't Work | Noelle Howey | January 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSeeing 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.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniBut there are other laws, the power of repulsion, for instance, whose omission would be equally fatal.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardMr. 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.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaA shiver of repulsion, for him and his killings, ran over her.
The Range Boss | Charles Alden Seltzer
British Dictionary definitions for repulsion
/ (rɪˈpʌlʃən) /
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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