revolt
/ɹɪˈvoʊlt/ verb C1- To rebel, particularly against authority. · The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
- To repel greatly. · Your brother revolts me!
- To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at. · The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
- To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
- To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
- to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
Plural revolt · He/she/it revolts · Past revolted · Past participle revolted · -ing form revolting
Verb forms
- Base form
- revolt
- He/she/it
- revolts
- Past
- revolted
- Past participle
- revolted
- -ing form
- revolting
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“There is,” said he, at the end of his meditations, “a clever maxim, which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.
This was a stroke of civility for which she was quite unprepared; and she could hardly suppress a smile at his being now seeking the acquaintance of some of those very people, against whom his pride had revolted, in his offer to herself.
“It was without any foundation that Le Messager yesterday announced the flight of Don Carlos and the revolt of Barcelona.
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