noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪
It is when she feels compassion, rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
▪
A feeling of revulsion for Edusha rose in me.
▪
What amazes me is that, in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen, I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion .
▪
We therefore have a clashing interest of views over whether to feel sympathy or revulsion about Blanche.
▪
He felt a rush of revulsion and indignation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
A little boy had died and, as a mother, I felt horror and revulsion .
▪
Foley expressed revulsion at the killings.
▪
Holly was unable to hide her revulsion at what she had just read.
▪
What we are now seeing is a public revulsion against violence in society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Colette works at marshalling our feelings of revulsion at this voracious creature who has almost killed the poor box thorn.
▪
His tenderness was replaced at first by a shuddering revulsion .
▪
I was overwhelmed by grief and revulsion such as I had never known before.
▪
It is when she feels compassion, rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
▪
Many of Mahathir's opponents believed that Anwar's arrest and trial would precipitate nationwide revulsion in the November 1999 elections.
▪
Yet, coupled with this sensual joy throughout Walden, there is a running under current of revulsion for the body.