repulse in English

noun
1
the action of driving back an attacking force or of being driven back.
the repulse of the invaders
synonyms:repellingdriving backwarding offholding off
verb
1
drive back (an attack or attacking enemy) by force.
rioters tried to storm ministry buildings but were repulsed by police
synonyms:repeldrive back/awayfight back/offput to flightforce backbeat off/backward offhold offrebut
2
cause (someone) to feel intense distaste and aversion.
audiences at early screenings of the film were repulsed by its brutality
synonyms:revoltdisgustrepelsickennauseateturn someone's stomachbe repugnant toturn offgross out
noun
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "repulse" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "repulse", or refer to the context using the word "repulse" in the English Dictionary.

1. Her repulse was quite unexpected.

2. The enemy met with a repulse.

3. Why do you repulse me?

4. The city garrison must be prepared to repulse attacks.

5. Racetracker overmelodiousness Arrhythmous France gruneritization snobologist thriftily thorned repulse

6. Her request for a donation met with a repulse.

7. Don't for one repulse, forgot the purpose that you resolved to effect.

8. Do not for repulse forget the purpose that you resolved to offer.

9. You are to repulse an attack of terrorist detachments at each level.

10. Do not, for repulse, forgo the purpose you resolved to effort.

11. This is Shek - O back beach not Repulse Bay. Please correct.

12. When they saw him repulse society, they said, " He is a brute. "

13. Do not, for repulse, forgot the purpose that you resolved to effort.

14. Repulse Bay Lang Ping Sha small beach - wide, gentle slope, the water warm.

15. The lifeguards held a sit-in protest at Repulse Bay in the afternoon.

16. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effeet.

17. 18 The lifeguards held a sit-in protest at Repulse Bay in the afternoon.

18. Some, like the Yorkshire, have battle-plans already worked out to repulse unwanted bidders.

19. He moves to Zheng Yuling after Hong Kong Repulse Bay's mansion, lives in here.

20. The British Empire had fatally depleted itself in the great if laggard repulse of Hitler.

21. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. 

22. February 13: France launches Operation Epervier (Sparrowhawk) in an effort to repulse the Libyan invasion of Chad.

23. Do not for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect - William Shakespeare.

24. 1 Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. 

25. Synonyms for Brushoff include cut, dismissal, slight, go-by, knock-back, rebuff, refusal, rejection, repudiation and repulse

26. Similar thorough rebuildings planned for Repulse and Hood were cancelled due to the advent of World War II.

27. The Corporeal Attractor is a block from Thaumic Tinkerer 2 which will attract or repulse entities, but not dropped items

28. Unable to repel the Jurchens by force, he sent his general Yun Gwan to raise an army and repulse them.

29. Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863 - battle of Chancellorsville stock illustrations Union infantry under General Hooker repulse one Confederate attack at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on May 1, 1863

30. Tactical counter-offensives, such as our repulse of the enemy's "mopping-up" campaigns in southeastern Shansi, are not only possible but absolutely necessary.

31. Combat on the outskirts of Lazarevac intensified once again as a result, and the Serbian Army managed to repulse every Austro-Hungarian assault despite a lack of ammunition.

32. H1860 - דְּרָאוֹן dᵉrâʼôwn, der-aw-one'; or דֵּרָאוֹן dêrâʼôwn; from an unused root (meaning to repulse); an object of aversion:—Abhorring, contempt.

33. While marching on a devious route to mask his intentions, he was attacked by Milroy at the Battle of McDowell on May 8 but was able to repulse the Union army after severe fighting.

34. Accordingly we may repulse the demons, as being our enemies, by Adjuring them through the power of God's name, lest they do us harm of soul or body, in accord with the Divine power given by Christ, as recorded by Luke 10:19: "Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions,