List of synonyms from "repudiate" to synonyms from "reredos"
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Definition of the day : « repulse »
- noun snub; rejection
- verb push away
- verb make sick
- She could feel its false precision, its intention, its repulse of her.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- So desperate was my case, I was resolved not to stop even at this repulse.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Burnside's repulse at Fredericksburg was followed by a discouraging retreat.
- Extract from : « The Nation in a Nutshell » by George Makepeace Towle
- Not all my kicks and cuffs and beatings had sufficed one whit to repulse him.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- It cost her an effort to repulse him, and the effort was not very convincing.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
- His repulse was complete and crushing and we saw no more of him that day.
- Extract from : « Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman » by J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
- What we afterwards alluded to as an attack was really an attempt at repulse.
- Extract from : « Heart of Darkness » by Joseph Conrad
- Were these preparations for war, or for vengeance, or to repulse a threatened invasion?
- Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
- She expostulated without struggling because it was hard for her to repulse him.
- Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad
- An attack—a repulse; and each time with added but never-varied slaughter.
- Extract from : « Shoulder-Straps » by Henry Morford