repulse

How did warring, factionalized city-states on the edge of the known world repulse the first superpower?

And if I were Christie, a song like "41 Shots" would repulse me.

The Repulse Isles are of small size; they are surrounded by rocks, which do not extend more than a quarter of a mile from them.

Gwynne was not in the humor to repulse anybody, and assured her that she really made him feel that he had returned to his home.

The three men leaped to their feet, and seizing their arms, prepared bravely to repulse the enemies who attacked them so suddenly.

Her repulse was a mortal offence: small minds never forget, much less pardon a rebuke to their vanity, and he inly swore revenge.

In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.