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What does repulsion mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
  2. An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
  3. (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
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Michael watched in repulsion as all five of them slowly raised their hands.
If the laser frequencies are high enough, the deuteron effectively feels the proton's force in all directions, and the repulsion cancels itself.
It subsumes both the movements of empathy and of repulsion toward an object implicit in pity and fear.
Whatever the truth, the repulsion felt at that decade can tar even the most innocent.
The fans are filled with repulsion for everybody concerned, and feel excluded from what negotiation has taken place.
A look of repulsion for the sickening display of uncontrolled emotion and loud drunkenness was plastered on his clean-shaven face.

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