REVULSION


Meaning of REVULSION in English

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.

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