Repulse is valid Scrabble Word

Is repulse a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is repulse valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for REPULSE in dictionary:

VERB:

to drive back
drive back (an attack or attacker) by force
reject or rebuff (an approach or offer or the person making it)
cause to feel intense distaste and aversion
be disgusting to
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.
force or drive back
be repellent to; cause aversion in
cause to move back by force or influence

NOUN:

the action of driving back an attack or of being driven back
a discouraging response to an offer or approach
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.
an instance of driving away or warding off
act of driving back

Words related to REPULSE

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Words that contain REPULSE

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How to use REPULSE in a sentence

The repulse of the Huns proved the hardest matter of all.
Once, indeed, he endeavored to renew his acquaintance with John, but a haughty repulse almost produced a quarrel.
Why do you repulse me? I speak to you as to the Virgin, and I kiss your knees.
She had been prepared to repulse, and there had been nothing to repulse.
In vain did the Roundheads strive to repulse the attack.
After a discouraging repulse from Sierra Leone, and the failure of several half-hearted attempts to obtain a footing elsewhere, the whole matter was allowed to sink into abeyance.
Had a third repulse of the assailants occurred, nothing could have prevented their flight to their boats.
About six hundred mountaineers, commanded by Djemboulat and Ammalat, turned their horses to repulse the attack, and give time to the rest to escape by the river.
He therefore advised her neither to encourage nor repulse him.
We had a report a few days ago that the rebellion was over, and the very next week the British met with a severe repulse.

He did not take Fame at a single leap, but wooed her patiently, and suffered many a repulse.
She does not repulse him, and he holds it in a close clasp.
After the repulse of the enemy he returned to the Yadkin for his family, and brought them again to his chosen land.
This repulse brought on the great disaster of the day.
On the news of this repulse the two sons of Guiteclin come out, apparently with the bulk of the army.
After bidding good-bye to the lovers, he hastened back to the middle of the village, where he arrived after the first disastrous repulse given his people by Professor Grimcke.
Cut to the heart at this unexpected repulse, Toby now conjured the sailor to go after me alone.
But the greatest misfortune that befell the English during the whole war was the repulse of General Abercrombie, with his army, from the ramparts of Ticonderoga in 1758.
He was deeply hurt, however, by this repulse and her cry of despair.
The news of their repulse filled the people of Santiago with consternation.
He thought the departure of the troops following so closely on the heels of the naval repulse would have a bad moral effect on the Balkans.
They were nearly recovered from the effects of their repulse at Corinth, a month before.
After the first repulse at Vicksburg, there was great sickness and suffering.
At an anchorage off the island near the latter cape the tide rose twelve feet, but close to the Repulse Isles, the rise was eighteen feet.
The end was the repulse of the whites after a pretty savage fight.
Rae on his eventful expedition to Repulse Bay, in 1853, in search of Franklin.
When he presents himself, as he will do shortly, do not repulse him as heretofore.
After the repulse, the commander of the fort, expecting a renewal of the attempt, was anxious to get the news to the city, so as to secure a reinforcement early the next day.
The geese, surprised at this sudden repulse, quickly wheeled, and flew back toward the place where our hunters were stationed.
Arch was ill at ease beneath the infliction, but he was a thorough gentleman, and could not repulse her rudely.
He does not in any instance entertain the thought of a repulse.
Later, after their severe repulse at Al-Kasr-Al-Kabu, the Portuguese began to creep down the west coast in quest of trade.

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