Revolt
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 An act of revolting. countable, uncountable
"— It's a revolt? — No, Sire, it's a revolution..."
- 2 organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another wordnet
- 1 To rebel, particularly against authority. intransitive
"The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved."
- 2 cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of wordnet
- 3 To repel greatly. transitive
"Your brother revolts me!"
- 4 fill with distaste wordnet
- 5 To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at. intransitive
"The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty."
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- 6 make revolution wordnet
- 7 To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
"The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt."
- 8 To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
"And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free."
- 9 to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
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More examples"It will take a long time to suppress the revolt."
Etymology
Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus). Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ).
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