Meaning of Repulsion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
   countable, uncountable
2. An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
   countable, uncountable
3. The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place.”

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