repulsed 1 of 2

adjective

as in shocked
filled with disgust I am repulsed that you think it's OK to cheat on your taxes

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repulsed

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verb

past tense of repulse
1
as in disgusted
to cause to feel disgust the smell of that town's paper mill totally repulses me

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2
as in repelled
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 repulsed
Adjective
Regardless, men behaving in a repulsed or shocked way when a man dresses feminine or in women’s clothing is homophobic. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Verb
Philly may be shedding its second-fiddle status, but it remains entirely repulsed by frauds and underachievers. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026 Plenty of people bought it, plenty were repulsed by it. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 June 2026 Firstman’s debut directorial effort, Club Kid, shrewdly acknowledges those garish personality tics, which have both endeared and repulsed audiences. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026 Anyone who has worked in or observed the media industry for the last couple of decades will recognize and be repulsed by nepo-baby Jay, who is undeniably villainous. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026 Floyd, distraught by his own physical failures, is nevertheless repulsed by the sight of Carol in her big, burly ump gear. — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026 Pheidippides, legendary Greek hēmerodromos, or courier, who is popularly believed to have run 40 km (about 25 miles) from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens in 490 bce, to report that the Athenians, in a single afternoon, had repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece. — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026 Cilantro, a polarizing herb that’s either adored in Mexican, Southeast Asian, and Indian cuisines, or repulsed by those who detect a nauseating soapy taste. — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026 Nick is hired by a mafia don to confirm and then steal a priceless manuscript said to be Dante’s original Divine Comedy in his own hand, dragging Nick into an underworld he’s both repulsed by and complicit in. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repulsed
  1. shocked
  2. disgusted
  3. repelled
  4. sick
  5. sickened
  6. resisted
  7. revolted
  8. appalled
Adjective
  • The first season ended with a big cliffhanger, in which Cooper emerged from a cocoon after a transformation to a shocked reaction though his appearance was not revealed.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 July 2026
  • In Atlanta last week, Mohamed Salah and his Egypt team-mates walked out of the stadium in shocked silence.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of shocked
Verb
  • In 2017, the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to a team of French researchers who used advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by fromage.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026
  • Kim The call left Kim Grindell disgusted, furious and wracked with guilt.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 20 June 2026
Definition of disgusted
Verb
  • The filmmakers found that even mentioning her bloodline repelled potential subjects from agreeing to be interviewed.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 22 July 2026
  • But they were outnumbered three or four to one by Argentina fans, who drowned them out with long flat roars whenever their team repelled a Spanish shot, or bundled a player off the pitch.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of repelled
Adjective
  • Veterinarians for famed Big Bear bald eagle Jackie, who was found sick and on the ground weeks ago, still don’t know what’s wrong with her.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026
  • What stays with me is not just what happened when my father got sick, but what didn’t happen before.
    — Guy Leitersdorf, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of sick
Verb
  • My disillusionment comes in the aftermath of being part of various African diasporic communities that have been devastated, devalued, and sickened by capitalism.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • The outbreak has sickened thousands of people across nine states, up from five states identified last week.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
Definition of sickened
Verb
  • On a Sunday afternoon in July, while much of the world watched the World Cup final, a counterexample was found to the Jacobian conjecture, a problem that had resisted proof or disproof since 1939.
    — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Until Tuesday, some rival executives resisted calling the Detroit Tigers on left-hander Tarik Skubal, trying to be respectful as the team fought to remain in contention.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of resisted
Adjective
  • The stench of corruption might become so overwhelming that a revolted electorate rejects the entire enterprise.
    — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Definition of revolted
Verb
  • He was appalled by the slaughter, but, more than that, by the complacency of his neighbors, their willingness to ignore the bloody work being done under their noses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • Many subjects were appalled by his treatment of his closest family.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026
Definition of appalled

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