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Meanings of repulse in English

Catalan
rebuig
Spanish
repulsa

An instance of driving away or warding off.

        rebuig
        Catalan
        rebutjar
        Spanish
        rechazar

        Cause to move back by force or influence.

            rebutjar
            Portuguese
            repelir

            Force or drive back.

                  repelir
                  Usage of repulse in English
                  1
                  The conflict was severe, but resulted in the repulse of the besiegers.
                  Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
                  2
                  The Nineteenth did not participate largely in the battle after its repulse.
                  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 / A Political History of...
                  3
                  I desire to help you; you repulse me and insult my manhood.
                  At the Mercy of Tiberius
                  4
                  They still saw red, the red of a darker anger-thatof repulse.
                  The Last Shot
                  5
                  He also insisted that Julian had sufficient men to repulse the Germans.
                  Julian
                  6
                  This, too, told the story of the difference between repulse and victory.
                  My Second Year of the War
                  7
                  He held out his hand, and the dowager did not repulse it.
                  Elster's Folly: A Novel
                  8
                  Then Durtal shook himself, and would repulse the assault of these memories.
                  En Route
                  9
                  After this repulse the Northmen desisted for a time from their attack.
                  The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred
                  10
                  Thus they had stood the supreme test which repulse alone can give.
                  My Second Year of the War
                  11
                  He set that lean jaw of his and would not accept repulse.
                  The Highgrader
                  12
                  There had been one great repulse and several lesser ones at Orleans.
                  Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death
                  13
                  At last she ventured to remonstrate, and met with anger and repulse.
                  The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
                  14
                  He caught and clasped her close, and she did not repulse him.
                  Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
                  15
                  The more I do to please him, the more I repulse him.
                  Silence of the grave
                  16
                  Half-hearted attacks provoked a sullen resistance which was satisfied with mere repulse.
                  The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
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                  Translations for repulse
                  Portuguese
                  repelir
                  Repulse through the time
                  Repulse across language varieties
                  United Kingdom
                  Common
                  United States of America
                  Less common