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v. To drive back; repel.

v. To rebuff or reject with rudeness, coldness, or denial.

v. Usage Problem To cause repugnance or distaste in.

n. The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.

n. Rejection; refusal.

v. to repel or drive back

v. to reject or rebuff

v. to cause revulsion

n. the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed

n. refusal, rejection or repulsion

v. To repel; to beat or drive back

v. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away.

n. The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.

n. Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.

To beat or drive back; repel: as, to repulse an assailant or advancing enemy.

To refuse; reject.

n. The act of repelling or driving back.

n. The condition of being repelled; the state of being checked in advancing, or driven back by force.

n. Refusal; denial.

v. be repellent to; cause aversion in

n. an instance of driving away or warding off

v. cause to move back by force or influence

v. force or drive back

"Now and then, volleys of musketry, or a repulse from the Southern batteries on the heights, filled the blue morning sky with belching scarlet flame and smoke: through all, however, the long train of army-wagons passed over the pontoon-bridge, bearing the wounded."

repulsed    repulses    repulsing   

rejection    force    push    fight    defend    fight down    oppose    fight back   

repellent    repulsive    repel    repulsion   

reject    denial    rejection    failure    repel    repulsion   

Hulse    dulce    impulse    pulse   

setback    discomfiture    defeat    subjugation    indignity    flogging    defection    dismissal    overthrow    capitulation