repulse
verb (used with object)
to drive back; repel.
has repulsed
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present perfectof repulse (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The rakish, raffish atmosphere that such residents helped to create may have attracted some visitors, but it has repulsed others.
From Time Magazine Archive
May 26th.—Reliable information of hard fighting at Vicksburg; but still, so far as we know, the garrison of the invested city has repulsed every assault made upon it.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
The news that Bandoola has repulsed his assailants--and you may be sure that this has been exaggerated into a great victory--will restore the spirit of the Burmese.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
It has repulsed you, pushed you back, said to you "go hence."
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
At the same time he reveals his love as though he told the tale of another, but he is met with scorn and only bidden to fight the husband who has repulsed her.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
