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revulsion

/ri-vuhl-shuhn/US // rɪˈvʌl ʃən //UK // (rɪˈvʌlʃən) //

谩骂,反感,嫌弃,谩骂声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
    • : a sudden and violent change of feeling or response in sentiment, taste, etc.
    • : the act of drawing something back or away.
    • : the fact of being so drawn.
    • : Medicine/Medical. the diminution of morbid action in one part of the body by irritation in another.

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Examples

  • We must find a way to respond that, despite our revulsion and anger, in the end advances our interests and not those of the attackers.

  • Though it elicits visceral responses—anger, sorrow, revulsion—it doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know.

  • As a wave of revulsion spread across the internet, he began to backtrack.

  • Convergence is also gathering force in a shared revulsion for the consequences of the war on drugs.

  • Wizner said he understood the revulsion: The interchange looked like cheap agitprop.

  • “I think I would like for people to feel a mix of revulsion and attraction, that would be nice,” says Lobo.

  • It is a seething, boiling, roiling, apoplectic revulsion at the very idea of unions.

  • At that moment she heard Mr. Royall's step as he came up the stairs to bed, and a fierce revulsion of feeling swept over her.

  • It was with a revulsion which I cannot easily express that I now saw more or less clearly what this pursuer was like.

  • A dozen times he approached the door in an angry revulsion against his self-imposed test, and a dozen times passed on.

  • The violence of the extreme section of the popular party led to a revulsion of feeling in the country.

  • But it moved him now, not to the revulsion and distaste of a week ago, but only to a careless contempt.