revulsion
US: /ɹiˈvəɫʃən/, /ɹɪˈvəɫʃən/
UK: /ɹɪvˈʌlʃən/
UK: /ɹɪvˈʌlʃən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
revulsion /ri'vʌlʃn/
- danh từ
- sự thay đổi đột ngột (ý kiến, tính nết...)
- (y học) sự gây chuyển bệnh, sự lùa bệnh
- (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm) sự rút ra; sự bị rút ra (vốn...)
- the revulsion of capital: sự rút vốn ra
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
[U, sing.] ~ (at / against / from sth) (formal) a strong feeling of disgust or horror: a feeling / look of revulsion + She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence. + I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle. + Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion.
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Thesaurus dictionary
n.
loathing, detestation, disgust, repugnance, abomination, abhorrence, aversion, hatred, antipathy, odium, execration:
I cannot describe the revulsion I felt at seeing those elephants slaughtered for their ivory.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
deep, utter | widespread
The killing caused widespread revulsion.
| instinctive
VERB + REVULSION
be filled with, feel | cause | express | conceal
PREP.
in/with ~
The children shrank back from him in revulsion.
| ~ against
public revulsion against violence in our society
| ~ at
He tried to conceal his instinctive revulsion at the idea.
| ~ for
He was filled with hatred and revulsion for everything about her.
| ~ towards
She seems to feel revulsion towards her own children.
PHRASES
a feeling/sense of revulsion
