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repulse as in: repulsed by the terrible odor
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The smell of the spoiled food was enough to repulse anyone.
repulse = cause revulsion (disgust)
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His rude and arrogant behavior tended to repulse potential friends and colleagues.repulse = to cause revulsion (distaste and aversion)
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If I ever let you see me in person, you would be repulsed. (source)repulsed = disgusted
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I was intrigued and repulsed at the same time. (source)
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He looked more repulsed by the second. (source)repulsed = disgusted
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That doesn't repulse you? (source)repulse = disgust
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And for some reason, the thought of our poem being traded repulses me. (source)repulses = disgusted
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Hating himself, repulsed by what he was doing, Harry forced the goblet back toward Dumbledore's mouth and tipped it, so that Dumbledore drank the remainder of the potion inside. (source)repulsed = feeling revulsion (intense dislike)
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You repulse me. (source)repulse = disgust
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But while Thomas's touch now repulses me, I feel no revulsion toward Day. (source)repulses = disgusts
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He grumbled as he spoke the word, sounding repulsed by the sight of an aging male body. (source)repulsed = disgusted
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"Does it ...does it repulse you?" he asked nervously. (source)repulse = disgust
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I was curious about his life, not repulsed. (source)repulsed = disgusted
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I tried to make myself smile, but it only seemed to repulse her more. (source)repulse = disgust
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repulse as in: repulse the attack
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The army managed to repulse the enemy attack at the border.
repulse = force to move away
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The force field generated by the device was designed to repulse any incoming projectiles.repulse = push away
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I stagger back, repulsed by the warm, sticky spray. (source)repulsed = driven back
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Illness repulses. (source)repulses = drives people away
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How can you love a woman who repulses you?† (source)
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The "Chapter of Repulsing Serpents" follows, then the "Chapter of Driving Away Apshait."† (source)
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Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. (source)repulsed = pushed away
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Attack, counter-attack, charge, repulse—these are words, but what things they signify! (source)repulse = force them to move back
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After their first few repulses the enemy always set the house on fire.† (source)
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"I didn't see you for a long time," she said, coquettishly, repulsing one of his exuberant approaches.† (source)
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We have repulsed individual Urgals, and that has given the townspeople a confidence far beyond their abilities. (source)repulsed = driven back
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Fanny, meanwhile, vexed with herself for not having been as motionless as she was speechless, and grieved to the heart to see Edmund's arrangements, was trying by everything in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both. (source)repulse = push back
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But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.† (source)
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The boat we were pursuing had squared away and was running before the wind to escape us, and, in the course of its flight, to take part in repulsing our general boat attack.† (source)
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