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What does revulsion mean?

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Noun
  1. Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
  2. A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
  3. (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
  4. (obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
  5. (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
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A slicker actor would have cued revulsion in children, but here the icky inevitability of movie clinches had been thwarted.
A wave of revulsion washed through my body and mind as I sat, motionless, mere inches from him.
The latter term evokes a distant echo to disgust, a moral revulsion that verges on physical recoil.
It came as a shock to me that not all men share this revulsion at body fat.
Can revulsion be classified as an adaptive mechanism that prevents us from coming into contact with contaminants?
For many of us, food has become tied into cycles of guilt and pleasure, desire and revulsion.

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