5 Metaphors for repulse

Repulse and disgrace are two main causes of discontent, but to an understanding man not so hardly to be taken.

The complete repulse of the Rebels was the result.

The repulse of the German attack was a real defeat, for it upset all the confident calculations of the enemy, who from the height of Mount Kemmel had seen, first Ypres, and then channel ports, within his grasp.

Its repulse was the signal for a general and hasty flight.

The Turkish fleets, under such leaders as Khair-ad-din (Barbarossa), Piale, and Dragut, seemed to command the Mediterranean including its western basin; but the repulse at Malta in 1565 was a serious check, and the defeat at Lepanto in 1571 virtually put an end to the prospect of Turkish maritime dominion.

5 Metaphors for  repulse