On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 08:48:30PM -0500, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Christopher D. Nichols wrote:
Shinji was revulsed at the entire idea of spending hours in the
entry plug. "How long are we gonna be stuck in there?"
I'm almost certain 'revulsed' is not a real word. This should read
"Shinji was repulsed..." or "Shinji felt revulsion..."
It is a real word.
And it's not really a synonym for "repulse" in this context, or "revulsion".
>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revulse \Re*vulse"\, v. t. [L. revulsus, p. p. of revellere.]
To pull back with force. [R.] --Cowper.