repulse


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Synonyms for repulse

disgust

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reject

defeat

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rejection

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for repulse

to turn or drive away

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Synonyms for repulse

an instance of driving away or warding off

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cause to move back by force or influence

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They cannot use them to repulse the Somali bandits.
Royal Navy battleships HMS Prince of Wales, where Churchill and Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter, and HMS Repulse both sank off the Malaysian coast, on December 10 1941.
Repulse Bay is a community of about 900 people situated on the Arctic Circle.
Some 327 men - many from Merseyside - were lost on the Prince of Wales, and 513 on the Repulse.
Charged with providing air cover for Prince of Wales and Repulse, he shared the horror of arriving on the scene to see only Repulse's oil slick and the Prince of Wales sinking beneath the waves.
Back in 1955, the traction engine Repulse had laid abandoned in a field at Crockett's Farm in Beamish, County Durham.
"When Bond seeks out his boss, he finds that on the door of his house there is a clapper of the brass ship bell of the former HMS Repulse, the last of whose lines, a battle cruiser, had been M's final sea-going appointment.
You have told her that you are "repulsed, disgusted, and disappointed", and are now surprised that, having told her that her opinions repulse, disgust and disappoint you, she is no longer speaking to you!
Hostages to Fortune: Winston Churchill and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse. Arthur Nicholson.
You might not be, but John McCosker is: He once licked a batfish to see if its skin possessed defensive chemicals that might repulse predators.
The artist portrays the attack on the British Royal Navy's Force Z on 10 December 1941, which resulted in the sinking of the battlecruiser Repulse and battleship Prince of Wales off Malaya by Type 1 and Type 96 bombers based near Saigon.
Mick Channon has a high opinion of Repulse Bay, and he will be disappointed if the colt fails to connect in Ayr's Land Engineering Novice Stakes (1.50).
The graves of sailors from HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, which were sunk during World War II, have both been looted by unscrupulous divers.
Whether mobilizing to repulse foreigners like Napoleon or locals like al-Jazzar, notables, merchants and others in Nablus were conscious of an identity that did not wait for a firman to be stirred into action.