She was struck with revulsion at the sight of the dead animal. a growing revulsion to war
Recent Examples on the WebApparently not, based on the crowd reacting with revulsion. Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 Aug. 2022 Hellquist’s initial reaction to her paternity shock was a mix of revulsion and shame. Sarah Treleaven, ELLE, 27 July 2022 Many of his films have been met with revulsion or at least aggrieved ambivalence. Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022 One likes to think such revulsion remains an enduring aspect of the national character. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 July 2022 The Great Black Swamp, a product of the excess of mire left over from the glacial melting of the Ice Age-era Lake Erie, and which covered much of Ohio and parts of Michigan and Indiana, inspired visceral revulsion. Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 The franchise has always exhibited a perplexing tension between revering science and reviling it, with revulsion winning out. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022 But a general, and often exaggerated, sense that guns are too easy to obtain combined with a revulsion at their lethality is not enough. W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 26 May 2022 Bill, a lifelong Republican, responded to the exaggerated masculine bravado of the Trump administration with something resembling revulsion. Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 23 May 2022 See More
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Etymology
Latin revulsion-, revulsio act of tearing away, from revellere to pluck away, from re- + vellere to pluck — more at vulnerable
ADJECTIVE | VERB + REVULSION | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤deep, utter痛恨;深惡痛絕▸➤widespread公憤◇The killing caused widespread revulsion.這一殺戮引起了公憤。➤moral (especially NAmE) 道德上的厭惡VERB + REVULSION➤be filled with, feel充滿/感到厭惡▸➤cause引起反感▸➤express表達反感PREPOSITION➤in revulsion, with revulsion厭惡地◇The children shrank back from him in revulsion.孩子們厭惡地從他面前後退。➤revulsion against對⋯憎惡◇public revulsion against violence in our society公眾對我們社會上的暴力行為的憎惡➤revulsion at憎惡⋯◇He tried to conceal his instinctive revulsion at the idea.他試圖掩蓋自己對這一想法本能的厭惡。➤revulsion for對⋯的厭惡◇He was filled with hatred and revulsion for everything about her.他對她的一切都感到仇恨和厭惡。➤revulsion towards/toward對⋯厭惡◇She seems to feel revulsion towards / toward her own children.她似乎對自己的孩子感到厭惡。PHRASES➤a feeling of revulsion, a sense of revulsion厭惡感