Usually means: Drive back or disgust strongly.
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  1. repulse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. repulse: Merriam-Webster
  3. repulse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. repulse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. repulse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. repulse: Vocabulary.com
  7. Repulse, repulse: Wordnik
  8. repulse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. repulse: Wiktionary
  10. repulse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. repulse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. repulse: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Repulse, repulse: Dictionary.com
  14. repulse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Repulse (arcade game), Repulse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Repulse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. repulse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. repulse: Rhymezone
  19. repulse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. repulse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. repulse: FreeDictionary.org
  22. repulse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. repulse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repulse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repulse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repulse: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repulse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See repulsed as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repulse)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To repel or drive back.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To reject or rebuff.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause revulsion in; to repel.
▸ noun:  the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed
▸ noun:  refusal, rejection or repulsion

Similar:
repel, rebuff, beat back, drive off, fight off, push back, snub, drive, drive back, force back, more...

Opposite:
attract, allure, entice

Types:
disgust, revulsion, loathe, hate, more...

Phrases:
Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, Repulse Bay, HMS Repulse, repulse disturbed, repulse our thoughts, more...

Adjectives:
bloody, first, severe, disastrous, second, final, successful, complete, last, steady, serious

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     chartreuse,     puce,     bile, more...



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Similar:
repel, rebuff, beat back, drive off, fight off, push back, snub, drive, drive back, force back, more...

Opposite:
attract, allure, entice

Types:
disgust, revulsion, loathe, hate, more...

Phrases:
Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, Repulse Bay, HMS Repulse, repulse disturbed, repulse our thoughts, more...

Adjectives:
bloody, first, severe, disastrous, second, final, successful, complete, last, steady, serious

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     chartreuse,     puce,     bile, more...



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