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Disgust

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.

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Abhorrence 76% connected

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

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Abomination 76% connected

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

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Detestation 76% connected

The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.

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Execration 76% connected

The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

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Horror 76% connected

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

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Loathing 76% connected

of Loathe

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Nausea 76% connected

Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

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Odium 76% connected

Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

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Repugnance 76% connected

Alt. of Repugnancy

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Repulsion 76% connected

The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.

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Revulsion 76% connected

A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.

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Manner of action 7

Appall 76% connected

To make pale; to blanch.

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Nauseate 76% connected

To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

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Offend 76% connected

To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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Outrage 76% connected

To rage in excess of.

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Scandalize 76% connected

To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach…

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Sicken 76% connected

To make sick; to disease.

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Dislike 76% connected

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Repel 76% connected

To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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Repulse 76% connected

To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Stir 76% connected

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Revolt 74% connected

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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Revolt 74% connected

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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Nauseate 92% connected

To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

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Repel 92% connected

To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Revolt 92% connected

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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Sicken 92% connected

To make sick; to disease.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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