repulsed in English

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
verb

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1. Some Aromantics might be romance repulsed (i.e

2. You're not repulsed by my behavior?

3. 15 A disorganized attack was mounted and repulsed.

4. The tourists were repulsed by the filthy conditions.

5. Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way.

6. 19 Government troops repulsed an attack by rebel forces.

7. Each time I tried to help I was repulsed.

8. Yazid used his cavalry regiment to counterattack but was repulsed.

9. The very thought of his cold clammy hands repulsed me.

10. Thanks to that providential snowstorm the attack had been repulsed.

11. In others, the rabbi is frightened and repulsed by the power he has unleashed.

12. 24 Pakistanis say another incursion this week was repulsed, though both armies deny it.

13. Evil has charisma. Though people are repulsed by it, they also are drawn to its power.

14. 8 And it came to pass that they were repulsed and driven back by the Nephites.

15. Antonyms for Captivated include repulsed, disgusted, revolted, sick, nauseated, repelled, sickened, bored, disenchanted and disenthralled

16. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away.

17. The semi-legendary Guhila ruler Bappa Rawal is also said to have repulsed an Arab invasion.

18. The attack was repulsed by the government, and the damage to the naval base was minimal.

19. The Besieged knew how to use their guns, and behaved with so much spirit, that every attack was repulsed

20. Although the Crusaders won their first battle, Bishop Berthold was mortally wounded and the Crusaders were repulsed

21. The Scots were surprised in their Bivouacs, but quickly formed up, and at first repulsed both the horse and the foot.

22. Bloodily repulsed, the few survivors of the raid staggered back into his lines a week later, spreading a deep sense of apprehension

23. The Boeotian cavalry made its appearance in the archaic period at the battle Kerissos where the Boeotians repulsed the Thessalian invasion (22)

24. A rapid march through Thrace and Macedonia brought him to Thessaly, where he repulsed the Thessalian cavalry who tried to impede him.

25. Instead he was extremely magnanimous towards Anna which irritated her further, and made her repulsed by everything to do with him.

26. On November 11, Wilkinson's rear guard, numbering 2,500, attacked Morrison's force of 800 at Crysler's Farm and was repulsed with heavy losses.

27. So, it doesn't bother you if some people are a little repulsed... and feel that maybe they should issue airsick bags with tickets to your movie?

28. Where these are cultivated along park borders, reports South Africa’s newspaper The Witness, elephants draw back in disgust because they are “repulsed by the plant’s odour.”

29. Crabbed Sentence Examples He is repulsed by the intolerably harsh and Crabbed versification, by the recondite choice of theme and expression, and by the oddity of the thought.

30. Symbol of implacable resistance against Spanish domination, the Araucanian Indians of Chile successfully repulsed repeated Spanish efforts to subdue them and were not fully conquered until the late 19th century

31. A German report at the end of the first day described how the German 5th Mountain Division "was repulsed in the Rupel Pass despite strongest air support and sustained considerable casualties".

32. Constant Avarices of the Salzburg archbishops led to clashes of arms in 1611, when the troops of Wolf Dietrich Raitenau occupied Berchtesgaden but were repulsed by the forces of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria

33. He blundered, blustered, buffooned, Bozoed and boofheaded his way through his speech and the subsequent questions, not that I could watch much of it, such is the extent to which I am repulsed by Mr Hollowman

34. A: Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which describes people whose experience of romance is disconnected from normative societal expectations, commonly due to experiencing little to no romantic attraction, but also due to feeling repulsed by romance, or being uninterested in romantic relationships (see our glossary).Most aromantic people don’t fall in love.