Revolt

Quick meaning: Revolt is a verb meaning (intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.

Meaning

(intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To repel greatly.
2. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
3. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
4. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
5. (card games) to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
6. An act of revolting.

Example Sentences

Your brother revolts me!

Our diſcontented Counties doe reuolt

And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free.

The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

Word Forms

• revolts
• revolting
• revolted
• revoltest
• revoltedst
• revolteth

Synonyms for revolt

Depending on context, synonyms include insurrection, rebellion, repel, rising, uprising, disgust.

Antonyms for revolt

Common opposites include counterrevolt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rebellion, uprising, insurrection, repel, turn off, disgust.

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