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revulsion

noun
🔊/rɪˈvʌlʃn/
🔊/rɪˈvʌlʃn/
 [uncountable, singular] (formal)
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  1. a strong feeling of horror 嫌恶；恶心；惊恐synonym disgust, repugnance
    • Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion.大多数人对爆炸事件表现出惊恐不安。🔊🔊
    • revulsion at something She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence.她对这一暴行深恶痛绝。🔊🔊
    • revulsion against something I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle.我对他们那腐朽的生活方式开始感到厌恶。🔊🔊
    see also revolt
    Extra Examples
    • He was filled with hatred and revulsion for everything about her.他对她的一切都感到仇恨和厌恶。
    • She seems to feel revulsion towards her own children.她似乎对自己的孩子感到厌恶。
    • The children shrank back from him in revulsion.孩子们厌恶地从他面前后退。
    • The killing caused widespread revulsion.这一杀戮引起了公愤。
    • public revulsion against violence in our society公众对我们社会上的暴力行为的憎恶
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • deep
    • utter
    • widespread
    • …
    verb + revulsion
    • be filled with
    • feel
    • cause
    • …
    preposition
    • in revulsion
    • with revulsion
    • revulsion  against
    • …
    phrases
    • a feeling of revulsion
    • a sense of revulsion
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    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.