REPULSE

[verb] [T] [formal] - to successfully stop (esp. an attack), or to push away or refuse (someone or something unwanted)The enemy attack was quickly repulsed.Guards had to repulse looters from the damaged shops.Better for a child to offend a genuinely kind stranger than risk danger by being too polite to repulse an advance. [T](formal) If something repulses you, it causes you to have a strong feeling of dislike, disapproval or disgust.We're not compatible - he likes all the things that repulse me.The tourists were repulsed by the filthy conditions.