revolt
Plural: revolts
Noun
- organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
- An act of revolting.
Verb
Verb Forms: revolted, revolting, revolts
- To rise up against authority; to rebel.
- make revolution
- "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
- fill with distaste
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- To rebel, particularly against authority.
- To repel greatly.
- To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
- 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.
Examples
- Players might revolt if a new rule unfairly changes the game.
- The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
- The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
- Your brother revolts me!
- — It's a revolt? — No, Sire, it's a revolution...
Origin / 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).
Synonyms
churn up, disgust, gross out, insurrection, nauseate, rebellion, repel, rising, sicken, uprising, armed revolt
Scrabble Score: 9
revolt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrevolt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
revolt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary