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Meanings of repulsion in English

Portuguese
aversão
Catalan
horror
Spanish
horror

Intense aversion.

        aversão
        Catalan
        repulsió

        The force by which bodies repel one another.

            repulsió

            The act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand.

                  Usage of repulsion in English
                  1
                  However, the more electrons in an atom, the greater their mutual repulsion.
                  The Physics of Superheroes
                  2
                  He excited feelings of repulsion in some, and of pity in others.
                  Father Goriot
                  3
                  It was not physical repulsion; it was not a sense of immorality.
                  Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
                  4
                  Susan drew away; she was looking at him with terror and repulsion.
                  Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
                  5
                  He had a sudden rush of repulsion; but he fought it down.
                  Wild Youth, Volume 1.
                  6
                  Between the brothers there was the strangest mixture of affection and repulsion.
                  After London; Or, Wild England
                  7
                  It was not the weight, it was the repulsion that lamed him.
                  Peak and Prairie / From a Colorado Sketch-book
                  8
                  The elevator was of the new sort that ran by gravitic repulsion.
                  Foundation
                  9
                  Creation is the harmony of contrary forces-theforces of attraction and repulsion.
                  Creative Unity
                  10
                  Stern repulsion to the Earth and the stern rocket-streams at highest power.
                  Wandl the Invader
                  11
                  A shudder of the repulsion from men crept over the younger lady.
                  The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
                  12
                  The rugged hunter looked at the big malformed border ruffian with repulsion.
                  Man-Size
                  13
                  Tells about the writer's gradual loss of fear and repulsion toward snakes.
                  The new yorker
                  14
                  And at such times his face expresses the utmost uneasiness and repulsion.
                  The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
                  15
                  He took it up and opened it with a feeling of repulsion.
                  Six Women
                  16
                  Her feeling for her husband had become one of terror and repulsion.
                  The Shuttle
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                  Translations for repulsion
                  Spanish
                  horror
                  Repulsion through the time
                  Repulsion across language varieties
                  United Kingdom
                  Common
                  United States of America
                  Less common