英语词汇“repulse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	repulse
释义	re·pulse I. \rə̇ˈpəls, rēˈp- also -lts\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Latin repulsus, past participle of repellere to repel — more at repel 1. : to drive or beat back (as an assault or an enemy) : repel usually by force of arms < police charging the plant gates were repulsed at every attempt — American Guide Series: Michigan > < repulsed an Indian attack here — American Guide Series: Tennessee > 2. : to repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial : rebuff, refuse, reject < repulsed every attempt … at conversation — Jane Austen > < she had learned to … repulse advances that were disagreeable — Ellen Glasgow > < repudiate and repulse any suggestion that we are making a questionable compromise — Sir Winston Churchill > 3. : to cause a feeling of repulsion in : disgust < repulsed by the sight of … green flies feeding upon the putrefying flesh of a crocodile — Bernice Matlowsky > < repulsed by his own weakness — Carson McCullers > II. noun (-s) Etymology: in sense 1, from Latin repulsa, from feminine of repulsus, past participle of repellere; in other senses, from Latin repulsus action of driving back, from repulsus, past participle of repellere 1. : refusal of a request or suit : denial, rebuff, rejection < court repulse from her husband — Thomas Hardy > < reap nothing but repulse and hate — John Milton > 2. : the action of repelling (as an assailant or a hostile force) or the fact of being repelled in hostile encounter 3. archaic : the action of forcing or driving back : the state of being forced or driven back — opposed to impulse < what a most powerful suction that repulse will create — George Semple >
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