Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To affect by revulsion; pull or draw back; withdraw.
- To draw away: applied to counter-irritation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To pull back with force.
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- verb To pull back with force.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They just revulse and mistake revulsion and prejudice for rational thought.
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As this goes on, independents will revulse in their race to distance themselves from the party of Bush.
Conyers Tells Rob Kall: Impeachment Not Off the Table; A You Tube Video 2008
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It may be that sympathy for the negro is seeking to put in train a series of changes which would terribly revulse those same sympathies, if the end could be seen from the beginning.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The Trib reasoned that the vision of a Daley trampling the ivy would revulse liberals, and called Wolff's defeat the biggest setback of his mayorship to date.
Chicago Reader 2010
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The Trib reasoned that the vision of a Daley trampling the ivy would revulse liberals, and called Wolff's defeat the biggest setback of his mayorship to date.
Chicago Reader 2010
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It will only serve to revulse and repulse them more with each passing day to realize how “unsafe” our children are in the hands of the GOP….”if they can’t take care of our children and keep their filty hands off of them! then how can they possibly take care of this country?”
Think Progress » Limbaugh Blames Pages For Foley’s Misconduct 2006
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