revulsion
noun/rɪˈvʌlʃn/
/rɪˈvʌlʃn/
[uncountable, singular] (formal)- a strong feeling of horror synonym disgust, repugnance
- Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion.
- revulsion at something She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence.
- revulsion against something I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2- He was filled with hatred and revulsion for everything about her.
- She seems to feel revulsion towards her own children.
- The children shrank back from him in revulsion.
- The killing caused widespread revulsion.
- public revulsion against violence in our society
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- utter
- widespread
- …
- be filled with
- feel
- cause
- …
- in revulsion
- with revulsion
- revulsion against
- …
- a feeling of revulsion
- a sense of revulsion
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally in a medical sense): from French, or from Latin revulsio(n-), from revuls- ‘torn out’, from the verb revellere (from re- ‘back’ + vellere ‘pull’). The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.
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