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Definition of Revolt
1. Verb. Make revolution. "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
2. Noun. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.
Generic synonyms: Battle, Conflict, Struggle
Specialized synonyms: Insurgence, Insurgency, Intifada, Intifadah, Mutiny
Specialized synonyms: Great Revolt, Peasant's Revolt, Indian Mutiny, Sepoy Mutiny
Derivative terms: Insurrectional, Insurrectionary, Insurrectionist, Rebel, Rebellious, Rebellious, Rise
3. Verb. Fill with distaste. "This spoilt food disgusts me"
Generic synonyms: Excite, Stimulate, Stir
Specialized synonyms: Nauseate, Sicken, Turn One's Stomach
Derivative terms: Disgust, Repellant, Repellant, Repellent, Repulsive, Repulsive
4. Verb. Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of. "The performance is likely to revolt Sue"; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
Generic synonyms: Repel, Repulse
Specialized synonyms: Appal, Appall, Offend, Outrage, Scandalise, Scandalize, Shock
Derivative terms: Disgust, Nausea
Definition of Revolt
1. v. i. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
2. v. t. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
3. 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.
Definition of Revolt
1. Verb. to rebel, particularly against authority ¹
2. Verb. to greatly repel ¹
3. Noun. an act of revolt ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Revolt
1. to rise up against authority [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Revolt
1. 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." (Milton) "HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time." (J. Morley) 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." (Shak) "Plant those that have revolted in the van." (Shak) 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. Origin: Cf. F. Revoller, It. Rivoltare. See Revolt. 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?" (Milton) 2. A revolter. "Ingrate revolts." Synonym: Insurrection, sedition, rebellion, mutiny. See Insurrection. Origin: F. Revolte, It. Rivolta, fr. Rivolto, p. P. Fr. L. Revolvere, revolutum. See Revolve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revolt
Literary usage of Revolt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1902)
"STUDIES IN THE SOURCES OF THE SOCIAL revolt IN 1381' I-IV. SOME valuable new
sources of the history of the rising in 1381 have recently been published.2 ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"The cause of the revolt is not far to seek. So long as Ibrahim, ... The first to
revolt were the Turks, resentful of the loss of their ancient privileged ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"But operation of nature, revolt, and dereliction must be specially discussed.
... revolt followed by secession is a mode of revolt, losing territory to ..."
4. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"revolt OF MYTILENE Archidamus had invaded Attica for the third time, ... The revolt
is all the more interesting and significant on this account. ..."
5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1892)
"The downfall of the Spanish monarchy and the establishment of Joseph Bonaparte
on the throne had been followed by revolt or by symptoms of revolt in almost ..."
6. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... disobey the Imperial summons : to the one, he represented the order as a
sentence of death; to the other, he stated the refusal as a signal of revolt; ..."
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