revulsion Definition
re·vul·sion (ri vul′s̸hən)
noun
- Rare a withdrawal
- a sudden, complete, and violent change of feeling; abrupt, strong reaction in sentiment
- extreme disgust, shock, or repugnance; feeling of great loathing
Etymology: < Fr or L; Fr révulsion < L revulsio < revulsus, pp. of revellere, to pluck away < re-, back + vellere, to pull < IE base *wel-, to snatch, seize, injure > OE wol, pestilence, ON valr, the slain on the battlefield
revulsion Related Forms
re·vul′·sive adjective
revulsion Synonyms
revulsion Usage Examples
Converse of object
- express: At this time, and for many years to come it will be very difficult to express the true revulsion against such attacks.
- feel: Some of us may well have felt the same sudden revulsion at the first images of the Milan accident some weeks ago.
- cause: It was the expressions on the faces, frozen at the moment of death, that caused the greatest revulsion.
- have: We feel good in crowds, we have a revulsion for feeling ' out of place ' .
- provoke: The opening of the concentration camps at the end of the war provoked a widespread revulsion in the world and within Germany itself.
- share: The British Methodist Church shares the widespread revulsion at the March 11 th bombings in Madrid, and unequivocally condemns them.
Preposition: at
- death: Richard considered a career in pediatrics, but his revulsion at the death of some of the premature babies dissuaded him.
- idea: Most were motivated by " revulsion at the idea of an Arab land being occupied by a non-Arab country " .
- sight: All this leads to almost universal revulsion at the sight of scurrying legs and scaly tail.
- act: The country is united in revulsion at these acts.
Adjective modifier
- widespread: Moreover, the abstract expression of rejected pluralism was a widespread revulsion from the very concept of a private sector.
- moral: Christ was teaching us to view our own secret sins with the same moral revulsion we feel for wanton acts of public sin.
- deep: This vicious and cowardly crime has filled us all with horror and deepest revulsion.
- public: Surely the public revulsion throughout these islands to the Omagh bomb must mark a new beginning in political relations here.
- same: Some of us may well have felt the same sudden revulsion at the first images of the Milan accident some weeks ago.
- popular: The Conservatives were kicked out last year in a wave of popular revulsion that has almost no equal in a modern democracy.
Noun used with modifier
- world: World revulsion at evidence of the Holocaust, which unfolded in 1945, ensured that there were going to be trials for war crimes.
- surface: There is a lot of beneath the surface revulsion to this going on by those below that level of rank.
Preposition: against
war: The result was a massive wave of revulsion against the war.
Preposition: of
feeling: A sudden revulsion of feeling swept over his mind.
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