OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 34083

repulsion

/ɹɪˈpʌlʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
repulsión
The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
repulsión
An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarsene…
repulsión
The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
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