source: This is what Lukes Repulse ability should do. : StarWarsBattlefront

verb with object

1. drive back (an attack or attacking enemy) by force:

…を撃退する, 追い返す

e.g. rioters tried to storm ministry buildings but were repulsed by police.

fail to welcome (friendly advances or the person making them); rebuff:

e.g. she left, feeling hurt because she had been repulsed.

refuse to accept (an offer):

〈申し出など〉をはねつける, 拒絶する.

e.g. his bid for the company was repulsed.

2. (usually be repulsed) cause (someone) to feel intense distaste and aversion:

〖通例be ～d〗 嫌悪感を覚える, 反発する

e.g. audiences at early screenings of the film were repulsed by its brutality.

the action of driving back an attacking force or of being driven back:

e.g. the repulse of the invaders.

a discouraging response to friendly advances:

e.g. his evasion of her plan had been another repulse.

late Middle English: from Latin repuls- ‘driven back’, from the verb repellere (see repel).