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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revolt \Re*volt"\, verb (used with an object)
1. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. [Obs.] --Spenser.
2. To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds. --Burke.
To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason. --J. Morley.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revolt \Re*volt"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Revolted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revolting}.] [Cf. F. r['e]voller, It. rivoltare. See {Revolt}, noun]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Revolt \Re*volt"\, noun [F. r['e]volte, It. rivolta, fr. rivolto, p. p. fr. L. revolvere, revolutum. See {Revolve}.]
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. [Obs.] ''Ingrate revolts.'' --Shak.
Syn: Insurrection; sedition; rebellion; mutiny. See {Insurrection}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
revolt
noun: organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: {rebellion}, {insurrection}, {rising}, {uprising}]
verb
1: make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
2: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: {disgust}, {gross out}, {repel}]
3: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: {disgust}, {nauseate}, {sicken}, {churn up}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
195 Moby Thesaurus words for "revolt": antagonism, antipathy, appall, arise, backlash, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, boycott, boycottage, break, breakdown, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, challenge, civil disorder, clashing, clean slate, clean sweep, collision, combative reaction, complain, complain loudly, complaint, computer revolution, conflict, confront, confutation, contend with, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, convulsion, counteraction, counterposition, counterrevolution, counterworking, coup d'etat, crankiness, crotchetiness, debacle, defiance, defy, demur, disapprove of, disgust, dispute, dissent, dissentience, emeute, face down, face out, face up to, fractiousness, friction, front, general uprising, give offense, go on strike, go out, grimace, gross out, hold out, horrify, insurge, insurgence, insurgency, insurrect, insurrection, interference, jacquerie, job action, kick, kick against, levee en masse, lock out, lockout, look askance at, make a stand, meet head-on, mount the barricades, mutineer, mutiny, nauseate, negativism, nonconformity, noncooperation, object, objection, obstinacy, offend, offer resistance, oppose, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, outbreak, outlaw strike, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, passive resistance, peasant revolt, perverseness, picket, protest, put off, putsch, radical change, reaction, rebel, rebellion, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, refractoriness, reluct, reluctance, reluctate, remonstrance, remonstrate, renitence, renitency, renounce, repel, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resist, resistance, revolt at, revolute, revolution, revolutionary war, revolutionize, revulsion, riot, rise, rise against, rise up, rising, rulebook slowdown, run riot, shock, show distaste for, show fight, shrink from, shudder at, shut it down, sick-in, sicken, sit down, sit-down, sit-down strike, slow down, slowdown, spasm, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, strike, striking alteration, strive against, subversion, subvert, sweeping change, swimming upstream, sympathy strike, tabula rasa, take-over, technological revolution, tie-up, total change, transilience, turn, turn the stomach, turnout, uncooperativeness, uprising, upset, violent change, walk out, walkout, wildcat strike, withstand, withstanding, work stoppage
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