revulsion

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

re·vul·sion BrE [rɪˈvʌlʃn] NAmE [rɪˈvʌlʃn] noun uncountable, singular ~ (at/against/from sth) (formal)
a strong feeling of disgust or horror
Syn: ↑repugnance
•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.
see also ↑revolt

Word Origin:
[revulsion] mid 16th cent. (originally in a medical sense): from French, or from Latin revulsio(n-), from revuls- ‘torn out’, from the verb revellere (from re- ‘back’ + vellere ‘pull’). The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.

Example Bank:
•He was filled with hatred and revulsion for everything about her.
•She seems to feel revulsion towards her own children.
•The children shrank back from him in revulsion.
•The killing caused widespread revulsion.
•public revulsion against violence in our society

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  repugnance, repulsion, horror