REPULSING Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

repulsing

verb

present participle of repulse

as in disgusting

to cause to feel disgust the smell of that town's paper mill totally repulses me

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as in repelling

to drive back the defense repeatedly repulsed all of the offense's attempts to move the ball forward, keeping them firmly planted on the 20-yard line

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Recent Examples of repulsing While there are dismemberments and other bits of gruesome violence to be found in the film, Badlands is largely aimed at endearing its audience rather than repulsing them. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025

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The consequences of disgusting one’s wife, whether or not one agrees with her premise, could be enormous.

— Judith Martin, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
Discharge Papers • Aw, The Pitt is back and happy to be disgusting again!

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026

Definition of disgusting

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This is more than a sophisticated arms race aimed at repelling threats and protecting borders.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
The Build Forward Ukraine team was also aware of Irpin and the special role the city had played in the dark early days, repelling the Russian ground offensive aimed at taking Kyiv, 14 miles south.

— Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of repelling

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The young Forster recoiled from the school’s culture of authoritarianism and militaristic chauvinism, which may have found expression in the students’ often appalling attitudes toward their own mothers.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Of all the recent poster boys for appalling misbehavior by the State Police, Michael Proctor would of course rank number one.

— Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026

Definition of appalling

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During the arrest, Guerrero-Chavez began resisting, even slipping out of her handcuffs and attempting to run back to her vehicle, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said.

— Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
Wiener has long championed making housing easier to build, but in San Francisco resisting development is a bedrock cause for those on the city’s left.

— Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of resisting

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First a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic illness that can cause ‘explosive diarrhea’ — was linked to contaminated shredded iceberg lettuce, sickening nearly 11,000 people.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 25 Aug. 2026
Despite the uptick, officials say California is not included in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s hit 15 states, sickening tens of thousands of people with prolonged bouts of diarrhea.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of sickening

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