0 present participle of repulse --
1 to push away or refuse something or someone unwanted, especially to successfully stop a physical attack against you: --
2 If something repulses you, it causes you to have a strong feeling of dislike, disapproval, or disgust: --
The tourists were repulsed by the filthy conditions.
The foot of gastropods is covered with a thin layer of this mucus, which is used for a variety of functions, including adherence, lubrication, repulsing predators and also during reproduction.
A chain of blockhouses and other defensive positions had been prepared, and early in the siege the garrison succeeded in repulsing several determined attacks by the commando.
Donnally's, they were by their courage highly instrumental in repulsing them.
Awang returned fire, repulsing every attempt by the bandits to advance, despite suffering a severe wound to his right arm.
The faujdar succeeded in repulsing them, though in the process he was seriously wounded and a number of his troops also perished.
The bishop said that had another prahu been found, they would have had a difficult time in repulsing or destroying it.
Emplacements provide both offensive capabilities well as defensive ones such as repulsing enemies back.
This repulsing force is what causes propulsion in a system designed to take advantage of the phenomenon.
