This is the headline of my local paper today:

quote:

Art at Distillery revulses residents

At first I thought nothing of it, then later I was like, wait... revulse?

The OED has revulse "To drag, draw, or pull back; to tear away" and it's obsolete. This new revulse clearly means "cause revulsion in" and it's apparently a backformation of revulsion.

Wow, that was quick! I was just with goofy, and we were talking about this. I surely had not heard it used like this before.