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REPULSE
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Traducere în limba română
repulse I. verb tranzitiv
1. a respinge, a da îndărăt (un atac, un inamic).
2. a respinge, a dezminţi (învinuiri); a respinge, a refuza (o cerere, un avans);
to repulse a request a respinge o cerere.
repulse II. substantiv
respingere, refuz;
to meet with / to suffer a repulse a fi refuzat.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Do not ask me, reader, to give a minute account of that day; as before, I sought work; as before, I was repulsed; as before, I starved; but once did food pass my lips.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)