Crossword-Solution: REPULSION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REPULSION | anagram | PRELUSION, RELISUPON, UNSPOILER |
We have 20 clues for the answer “REPULSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| 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.
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.
The men, farm hands from the neighbouring ranches, young fellows from Guadalajara, drew back in instinctive repulsion.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2004–2015).