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発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈpʌls/

動詞

repulse (third-person singular simple present repulses, present participle repulsing, simple past and past participle repulsed)

1. (transitive) To repel or drive back.

   to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy

   • 1939 December 5, J. W. Studebaker, Democracy Shall Not Be Plowed Under‎, page 9:

     If we fail to repulse the enemy within the gates--unemployment, poverty, disorganized agriculture and the like--from whence may we expect the united strength and clear purpose to repulse any outside force?

2. (transitive) To reject or rebuff.

   to repulse a suitor

   • 1850, T. S. Arthur, “Happy on a Little”, in Sketches of Life and Character‎, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 89:

     At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.

3. (transitive) To cause revulsion in; to repel.

   The smell of rotting food repulsed me.

   I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.

派生語

名詞

repulse (plural repulses)

1. The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
2. Refusal, rejection or repulsion.

関連する語

• repel
• repellent
• repulsion
• repulsive
• pulse

Further reading

• “repulse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “repulse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “repulse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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