Definitions for repulse

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repulse re·pulse

Spelling: [ri-puhls]

IPA: /rɪˈpʌls/

Repulse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in repulse (eelprsu).

Definitions for repulse

noun

1. the act of repelling.
2. the fact of being repelled, as in hostile encounter.
3. a refusal or rejection.

verb (used with object)

1. to drive back; repel:
2. to repel with denial, discourtesy, or the like; refuse or reject.
3. to cause feelings of repulsion in:

Origin of repulse

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin repulsus, past participle of repellere to repel

Examples for repulse

She could feel its false precision, its intention, its repulse of her.

It cost her an effort to repulse him, and the effort was not very convincing.

His repulse was complete and crushing and we saw no more of him that day.

An attack—a repulse; and each time with added but never-varied slaughter.

She expostulated without struggling because it was hard for her to repulse him.

What we afterwards alluded to as an attack was really an attempt at repulse.

So desperate was my case, I was resolved not to stop even at this repulse.

Were these preparations for war, or for vengeance, or to repulse a threatened invasion?

Not all my kicks and cuffs and beatings had sufficed one whit to repulse him.

Burnside's repulse at Fredericksburg was followed by a discouraging retreat.