revolt

[reĀ·volt]

Revolt means to rise up against an authority in an act of rebellion. You might see an opposition group revolt against a government, or you might revolt against your oppressive 10:00 curfew.

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To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

Noun
organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

Verb
cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"

Verb
fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"

Verb
make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"


n.
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

n.
Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.

n.
To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

v. t.
To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.

v. t.
To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.

n.
The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.

n.
A revolter.


Revolt

Re*volt" , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Revolting.] [Cf. F. r'82voller, It. rivoltare. See Revolt, n.] 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free.
HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.
2. Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
Our discontented counties do revolt.
Plant those that have revolted in the van.
3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

Revolt

Re*volt", v. t. 1. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.
To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason.

Revolt

Re*volt", n. [F. r'82volte, It. rivolta, fr. rivolto, p. p. fr. L. revolvere, revolutum. See Revolve.] 1. The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
2. A revolter. [Obs.] "Ingrate revolts." Shak. Syn. -- Insurrection; sedition; rebellion; mutiny. See Insurrection.

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.

The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.

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Usage Examples

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

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Other Usage Examples

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

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