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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.

Synonyms
Examples for "standoff"
Examples for "standoff"
1
Washington could be facing its third major Congress-White House standoff this year.
The Guardian
2
He said: I do not anticipate a great political standoff about this.
The Guardian
3
Last year, tensions spiked during a standoff in the remote Guerguerat area.
Reuters
4
The long-running standoff has raised questions over internet freedom in the country.
The Guardian
5
A deal is key to averting a long and messy legal standoff.
Reuters
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