repulse
verb (used with object)
to drive back; repel.
will repulse
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future tenseof repulse.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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That we will repulse, dismay or alienate someone simply by telling them that we like them.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2015
This simplistic accountability movement will repulse talented young people from entering the profession—especially in the urban areas that need them the most.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2012
But last week it called in reporters to make it clear all around that if Castro strikes, the U.S. will repulse him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The legions of Marshal Ney are charging again, but General Barclay, with his Russians, has occupied the Windmill-knoll, near Gleime, and will repulse him as we shall Napoleon's columns.
From Napoleon and Blucher by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
You will repulse with contempt the perfidious insinuations which malevolence seeks to propagate.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
