a strong feeling of horror synonym disgust, repugnance嫌恶;恶心;惊恐 Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion. 大多数人对爆炸事件表现出惊恐不安。 - revulsion at something
She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence. 她对这一暴行深恶痛绝。 - revulsion against something
I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle. 我对他们那腐朽的生活方式开始感到厌恶。
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2He was filled with hatred and revulsion for everything about her. 他对她的一切都感到仇恨和厌恶。 She seems to feel revulsion towards her own children. 她似乎对自己的孩子感到厌恶。 The children shrank back from him in revulsion. 孩子们厌恶地从他面前后退。 The killing caused widespread revulsion. 这一杀戮引起了公愤。 public revulsion against violence in our society 公众对我们社会上的暴力行为的憎恶
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- utter
- widespread
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- be filled with
- feel
- cause
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- in revulsion
- with revulsion
- revulsion against
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- a feeling of revulsion
- a sense of revulsion
Word Originmid 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.