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revolt Definition

re·volt (ri vōlt′)

noun

  1. a rising up against the government; rebellion; insurrection
  2. any refusal to submit to or accept authority, custom, etc.
  3. the state of a person or persons revolting

Etymology: Fr révolte < révolter, to revolt < It rivoltare < VL *revolutare, for L revolvere: see revolve

intransitive verb

  1. to rise up against the government
  2. to refuse to submit to authority, custom, etc.; rebel; mutiny
  3. to turn away (from) in revulsion
  4. to be disgusted or shocked; feel repugnance: with at or against

Etymology: Fr révolter

transitive verb

to fill with revulsion; disgust

revolt Related Forms

re·volt′er noun

revolt Synonyms

revolt

n.

uprising, mutiny, sedition; see revolution 2.

revolt Synonyms

revolt

v.

  1. To rebel

    mutiny, rise up, resist; see rebel 1.

  2. To repel

    sicken, offend, nauseate; see disgust.

revolt Usage Examples

Possessives

  • peasant: The answer to both questions is in the crisis in feudal society which was the cause of the peasants ' revolt.
  • taxpayer: A taxpayers ' revolt is in full swing, but no senior politician dares to step forward to lead it.

Converse of object

  • quell: XIV was ordered back to the continent from Britain to help quell the revolt.
  • suppress: To suppress the revolt, Kolchak ordered soldiers to open fire, killing over 300 unarmed civilians.
  • repress: Finally, internal measure: as we have seen, using troops to repress a revolt always posed a risk of excess.
  • crush: The King will order his Minister of War to send an army against the province to crush the revolt.
  • provoke: Even then the Dissolution provoked an armed revolt which nearly cost Henry his throne.
  • organize: Major Rafael de Riego y Núñez, military radical who organized revolt against Ferdinand VII in 1820.

Preposition: against

  • neo-liberalism: With the movement in Ecuador checked for the moment the focus for the continental revolt against neo-liberalism switched to Bolivia.
  • rule: His conclusions on the 1920 revolt against British rule are fascinating.

Adjective modifier

  • Maccabean: It is not the inspired Word of God, but is a quite accurate account of the Maccabean revolt.
  • agrarian: What was critical in the case of agrarian revolts was much more usually the land itself.
  • Arab: The Arab revolt therefore ought to be excised from the chronicles of Arab nationalism.
  • armed: Even then the Dissolution provoked an armed revolt which nearly cost Henry his throne.
  • tribal: In the past decade several tribal revolts have been reported, all brutally suppressed.

Noun used with modifier

  • backbench: With a major backbench revolt over the Education Bill on the horizon, no-one wants any more high wire acts.
  • peasant: In Autumn, 1917, almost the whole country was the scene of peasant revolts.
  • slave: In 1791 these Africans began the only successful national slave revolt in history.
  • shareholder: Recent shareholder revolts have taken place at the Abbey National, Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Shell and HBOS.