Revolt (Verb)
Meaning 1
Fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- The horrid smell of rotting fish revolts me.
- The graphic descriptions of violence in the movie revolts me.
- The thought of spiders crawling on my skin revolts me.
- The racism and sexism displayed in his speech revolts me.
- The extremely poor conditions in the refugee camp revolts me.
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Meaning 2
Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us".
Classification
Verbs of feeling.
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Meaning 3
Make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The workers at the factory will revolt if their wages aren't increased this year.
- When the government imposed strict censorship, the intellectuals revolted by writing secretly published underground literature.
- The slaves revolted against their brutal masters, demanding freedom and equality.
- Students threatened to revolt if the university continued to raise tuition fees despite poor facilities.
- The peasants revolted against the corrupt landlord who had taxed them heavily for years.