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Meanings of repugnance in English
Portuguese
incompatibilidade The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time.
Synonyms
Examples for "horror"
Examples for "horror"
1
Art is perhaps particularly necessary when science produces new potential for horror.
2
Vlogger Nas Daily had heard many horror stories about South African settlements.
3
These proceedings excited general horror in the mother country, and Charles II.
4
People love horror stories, particularly if they come with extra Yuk Factor.
5
He thought her horror had been caused by damage to her house.
1
His revulsion was so great, he simply could not deal with it.
2
The revulsion of feeling in the crew of the Talisman was overpowering.
3
I hope the road to revulsion continues to separate rendering and rending.
4
Thinking back now to that time, Lin no longer shuddered with revulsion.
5
You could see a vague revulsion in the people surrounding the creature.
1
However, the more electrons in an atom, the greater their mutual repulsion.
2
He excited feelings of repulsion in some, and of pity in others.
3
It was not physical repulsion; it was not a sense of immorality.
4
Susan drew away; she was looking at him with terror and repulsion.
5
He had a sudden rush of repulsion; but he fought it down.
Usage of repugnance in English
1
After half an hour, overcoming repugnance, he went back into the house.
2
Their repugnance to novel hypotheses is only the natural and healthy one.
3
The repugnance she felt was a physical sensation in her whole body.
4
But the cause of her repugnance was not what the abbe supposed.
5
In short, he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him.
6
The latter he regarded with even far deeper repugnance than the former.
7
The type of repugnance when one takes a swig of sour milk?
8
The Landgrave Philip, from the beginning, manifested his repugnance to the match.
9
To the first astonishment of Adrienne succeeded an impression of painful repugnance.
10
Her reading failed to remove her repugnance to the touch of life.
11
He turned a little way from her, as if in instinctive repugnance.
12
A secret dread and repugnance had held him from it till now.
13
Conquering his repugnance, the young man walked out on the long point.
14
He started back with an extraordinary feeling of mingled fear and repugnance.
15
Other people were drawing back, their expressions full of repugnance and fear.
16
Her flesh crept, with fear and repugnance, at the sight of him.
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Translations for repugnance
Catalan
Spanish
Repugnance through the time
Repugnance across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare