Revolt

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  • intransitive verb. To attempt to overthrow the authority of the state; rebel.
  • intransitive verb. To oppose or refuse to accept something.
  • intransitive verb. To feel disgust or repugnance.
  • intransitive verb. To fill with disgust or abhorrence; repel. synonym: disgust.
  • noun. An uprising, especially against state authority; a rebellion.
  • noun. An act of protest or rejection.
  • noun. The state of a person or persons in rebellion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An uprising against government or authority; rebellion; insurrection; hence, any act of insubordination or disobedience.
  • noun. The act of turning away or going over to the opposite side; a change of sides; desertion.
  • noun. Inconstancy; faithlessness; fickleness, especially in love.
  • noun. A revolter.
  • noun. Synonyms Sedition, Rebellion, etc. See insurrection.
  • To turn away; turn aside from a former cause or undertaking; fall off; change sides; go over to the opposite party; desert.
  • To break away from established authority; renounce allegiance and subjection; rise against a government in open rebellion; rebel; mutiny.
  • To prove faithless or inconstant, especially in love.
  • To turn away in horror or disgust; be repelled or shocked.
  • To roll back; turn back.
  • To turn away from allegiance; cause to rebel.
  • To repel; shock; cause to turn away in abhorrence or disgust.
  • Synonyms To disgust, sicken, nauseate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
  • transitive verb. To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock.
  • noun. The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion.
  • noun. A revolter.
  • intransitive verb. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To rebel, particularly against authority.
  • verb. To greatly repel.
  • noun. an act of revolt
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
  • noun. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
  • verb. make revolution
  • verb. fill with distaste
  • Word Usage
    "III (213,7) [for the revolt of mine is dangerous] I suppose we may read, _the revolt_ of men."
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    arise  rebel  rise  rise up  
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