repulse

Those reports appear to have been absolutely correct, the early responses to Harris’ candidacy suggesting that Republicans are going to have a tough time talking about a woman of color in a way that doesn’t repulse swing voters.

His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.

In trying to sell women on this "marry men who repulse you" plan, the editorial board unconvincingly argues that simply being married makes people happier than being single.

Gladiatorial games, for example, repulse him; sex is reduced to “a brief seizure.”

Troops from South Korea, the United States and other countries under the direction of the United Nations battle to repulse the invasion.