repulse• A disorganized attack was mounted and repulsed.• On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed.• Instead he was extremely magnanimous towards Anna which irritated her further, and made her repulsed by everything to do with him.• What scarsdeformed him, so that even you, who stand for him in the courtroom, are repulsed by him?• He was repulsed by the scramble of images in her mind.
Originrepulse
(1500-1600)Latin past participle of repellere; → REPEL