Usually means: Intense disgust or repulsion feeling.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. revulsion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. revulsion: Merriam-Webster
  3. revulsion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. revulsion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. revulsion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. revulsion: Vocabulary.com
  7. Revulsion, revulsion: Wordnik
  8. revulsion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. revulsion: Wiktionary
  10. revulsion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. revulsion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. revulsion: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. revulsion: Dictionary.com
  14. revulsion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. revulsion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Revulsion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Revulsion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. revulsion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. revulsion: Rhymezone
  20. revulsion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. revulsion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Revulsion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. revulsion: FreeDictionary.org
  24. revulsion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. revulsion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Revulsion (VOY), Revulsion (Voyager episode), revulsion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Revulsion (VOY), Revulsion (Voyager episode), revulsion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. revulsion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Revulsion (VOY), Revulsion (Voyager episode), revulsion: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
▸ noun:  A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.

Similar:
horror, repugnance, repulsion, abhorrence, loathing, aversion, disgust, abomination, abhorring, detestation, more...

Opposite:
attraction, fondness, liking, admiration

Types:
nausea, disgust, loathing, horror, repulsion, repugnance, disdain, dislike, more...

Phrases:
revulsion (voy), revulsion (voyager episode), causing revulsion or dismay, feel revulsion toward, disgust or revulsion, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, moral, great, physical, strong, popular, general, violent, natural, public, widespread

Colors:
    olive,     sickly green,     vomit green,     bruise purple,     blood red, more...


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Similar:
horror, repugnance, repulsion, abhorrence, loathing, aversion, disgust, abomination, abhorring, detestation, more...

Opposite:
attraction, fondness, liking, admiration

Types:
nausea, disgust, loathing, horror, repulsion, repugnance, disdain, dislike, more...

Phrases:
revulsion (voy), revulsion (voyager episode), causing revulsion or dismay, feel revulsion toward, disgust or revulsion, provoke horror and revulsion, causing moral revulsion, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, moral, great, physical, strong, popular, general, violent, natural, public, widespread

Colors:
    olive,     sickly green,     vomit green,     bruise purple,     blood red, more...



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