with obj.
1
- drive back (an attack or attacking enemy) by force（对来犯之敌）击退, 赶走：
rioters tried to storm Interior Ministry buildings but were repulsed by police.
暴乱分子试图攻下内政部大楼但被警察击退。
1.1
- fail to welcome (friendly advances or the person making them); rebuff（对友好表示或作友好表示者）坚拒, 回绝：
she left, feeling hurt because she had been repulsed.
好心却遭拒, 她伤心地离开了。
1.2
- refuse to accept (an offer)拒绝接受（提议）：
his bid for the company was repulsed.
他对该公司的出价未被接受。
2
- （一般作be repulsed）cause (someone) to feel intense distaste and aversion使反感, 使厌恶：
audiences at early screenings of the film were repulsed by its brutality.
电影初放映时片中的残忍镜头使观众反感。
mass noun
1- the action of driving back an attacking force or of being driven back击退; 被击退：
the repulse of the invaders.
入侵者的被击退。
1.1
- count noun a discouraging response to friendly advances（对友好表示的）拒绝：
his evasion of her scheme had been another repulse.
他故意回避她的方案是对她的又一次拒绝。
词源
late Middle English: from Latin repuls- 'driven back', from the verb repellere （see REPEL）.