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# repugnance

«repugnance» in Mova's school dictionary: **A strong feeling of dislike or disgust towards something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A strong feeling of dislike or disgust towards something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repugnance/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a hero feels deep repugnance for a magic spell or a wicked act

### examples

- He felt repugnance at the slimy frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repugnance/#x1)
- I looked at the rotten food with repugnance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repugnance/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «repugnance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repugnance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.