Revolt
[rɪ'vəʊlt] or [rɪ'volt]
Definition
(verb.) make revolution; 'The people revolted when bread prices tripled again'.
Inputed by Cole--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Rebel, mutiny, rise, renounce allegiance.
v. a. Disgust, nauseate, sicken, shock.
n. Rebellion, insurrection, mutiny, sedition, defection, rising.
Edited by Ingram
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Insurrection, sedition, rebellion, mutiny
ANT:Submission, acquiescence, loyalty
Editor: Woodrow
Definition
v.i. to renounce allegiance: to be grossly offended: to mutiny: to be shocked.—v.t. to cause to rise in revolt: to shock.—n. a rebellion: insurrection desertion: a change of sides: fickleness.—n. Revol′ter.—adj. Revol′ting causing a turning away from: shocking: repulsive.—adv. Revol′tingly.
Typist: Ollie
Examples
- We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not a little of the revolt was an exuberant rebellion for its own sake. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The deepest revolt implied in the term syndicalism is against the impersonal, driven quality of modern industry--against the destruction of that pride which alone distinguishes work from slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Standing as a spokesman of an actual social revolt, he has not lost his vision because he understands its function. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Deliberate revolt or deliberate attempts to deceive others may result. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was more agrarian revolt in the north than in the south; the Steel Boys, and later the Peep-o'-Day Boys, were Ulster terrorists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were also ineffectual revolts in Italy and Germany in 1830, and a much more serious one in Russian Poland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some such impulse as that is what marks off syndicalism from the other revolts of labor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And this intention is the half-perceived current which runs through our age and galvanizes so many queer revolts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He will find it clustering about certain big revolts--the unrest of women, for example, or the increasing demands of industrial workers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Later Holland revolted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He revolted at the thought of finding himself in the world again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sardinia and Corsica revolted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their hardness--their hideous, worldly hardness--revolted me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She appeared to suspect a plan of consolation on my part, from which she, cherishing her new-born grief, revolted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Scotch revolted, and the English levies Charles raised to fight them mutinied. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It would have been as revolting to him as is cannibalism to us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- From the moment that Tom saw him approaching, he felt an immediate and revolting horror at him, that increased as he came near. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I attempted to direct Limping Lucy's attention to some less revolting object than my face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He is so revolting to me, too, that his being away from here, at present, is quite a relief to my mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I had shrunk from reasoning my own way fairly to that revolting conclusion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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