English-French translations for repulse

• rejeter
• repousser
  Ni la richesse ni la force militaire ne peuvent aider à repousser une cyber-attaque. Neither wealth nor military force can help repulse a cyber attack.

Definition of repulse

• To repel or drive back
• To reject or rebuff
• To cause revulsion in
• the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed

Examples

• to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy
• to repulse a suitor
• The smell of rotting food repulsed me.
• I find your conduct reprehensible, disgusting, and it repulses me, the way a mongoose repulses a snake.

Related words

• repulsive
• repulsion
• repulsively
• repulsive force
• Coulomb repulsion
• non repulsive