revolt

present singular third person revolts · participle present revolting · participle past revolted · past revolted · first person past singular revolted · archaic present second person singular revoltest · past second person singular revolted · archaic past second person singular revoltedst · present singular third person revolts · archaic present singular third person revolteth · past singular third person revolted · past plural revolted · past subjunctive revolted · participle present revolting · participle past revolted

1. intransitiveTo rebel, particularly against authority.

   The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.

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   Our diſcontented Counties doe reuolt

   c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 18, column 1

2. transitiveTo repel greatly.

   Your brother revolts me!

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   I shall be told, that this abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.

   1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, page 118

   1870, John Morley, Condorcet (published in the Fortnightly Review To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.

3. intransitiveTo be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.

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

4. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.

   The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 567

5. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

   And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free.

   1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XII. On the Same [Tetrachordon].”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 57

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   His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.

   1886, John Morley, The Life of Turgot

6. card gamesto perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy

   Antonyms: counterrevolt

plural revolts

1. countableuncountableAn act of revolting.

   — It's a revolt? — No, Sire, it's a revolution...

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   The first recorded use of “insurrection” in English, indeed, is in parliamentary papers describing the armed revolt led by Jack Cade in 1450, who marched on London to protest against the corruption of Henry VI’s government. […] Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.

   2021 January 13, Steven Poole, “'Insurrection': how an old word for an old thing was Trumped”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021

   Synonyms: armed revolt, insurrection, rebellion