Crossword-Solution: REPULSION 9 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Repulsion n. The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being
repulsed or repelled.
Repulsion n. A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
Repulsion n. The power, either inherent or due to some physical
action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede
from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as,
molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.

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REPULSION anagram PRELUSION, RELISUPON, UNSPOILER

We have 20 clues for the answer “REPULSION”

Clue Answers
Utter disgust 1 answer
ATTRACTION (ant.) 3 answers
Extreme aversion 4 answers
trenchancy 13 answers
causticity 14 answers
Scoffing 19 answers
disrelish 20 answers
Repulse 21 answers
allergy 24 answers
Detestation 43 answers
animus 44 answers
abhorrence 47 answers
Rancour 48 answers
rudeness 49 answers
repugnance 50 answers
Acrimony 51 answers
Distaste 51 answers
Resentment 56 answers
antipathy 60 answers
Disgust 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with REPULSION (5)

Well, I said, would you not allow that assent and dissent, desire and aversion, attraction and repulsion, are all of them opposites, whether they are regarded as active or passive (for that makes no difference in the fact of their opposition)? Yes, he said, they are opposites.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
She almost feared to let the two articles lie in juxtaposition: so antagonistic were the interests they represented that a miraculous repulsion of one by the other was almost to be expected.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
The men, farm hands from the neighbouring ranches, young fellows from Guadalajara, drew back in instinctive repulsion.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Then he was quiet.” “Then what happened?” “Then I heard a sound like the noise of a pack when the wolf is thrown to them--gulping and lapping.” (There was a groan of disgust and repulsion through the court, and another attempted intervention by the distracted lawyer.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995
Markheim moved a little nearer, with one hand in the pocket of his greatcoat; he drew himself up and filled his lungs; at the same time many different emotions were depicted together on his face—terror, horror, and resolve, fascination and a physical repulsion; and through a haggard lift of his upper lip, his teeth looked out.
The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995

Quotes with REPULSION (3)

Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qualities which represent the objective side of his *ordo amoris*, values which have not yet been shaped into things and goods. He carries this shell along with him wherever he goes and cannot escape from it no matter how quickly he runs. He perceives the world and himself through the windows of this shell, and perceives no more of the world, of himself, or of anything else beside…
Max Scheler
After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
Alice Sebold Lucky
when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex - they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, USA TODAY.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (2004–2015).