as in insurrection
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
soon the revolt had spread to every corner of the country
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1
as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
the jury appeared to be revolted by the grisly details of the murder
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as in to rebel
to rise up against established authority
the students practically revolted when the school cancelled the championship football game
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Recent Examples of revolt
Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
Sullivan, who would later be praised for leading a revolt against his Senate colleague Tommy Tuberville’s blockade on promotions of military officers, also engaged in some quiet hardball.
—Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2025
Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 11 Dec. 2024
Over the Next Five Years: Will audiences revolt if prices get too high or the volume of commercials on streaming reaches the same level as cable?
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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Noun
We were founded in revolt against unaccountable power and wealth.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
Sullivan, who would later be praised for leading a revolt against his Senate colleague Tommy Tuberville’s blockade on promotions of military officers, also engaged in some quiet hardball.
—Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
Her revolting statement on the assassination of Brian Thompson is a reminder of why Democrats should abandon her, and look more to the example of John Fetterman.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 11 Dec. 2024
Over the Next Five Years: Will audiences revolt if prices get too high or the volume of commercials on streaming reaches the same level as cable?
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolt
Noun
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McKinley took a similar approach in dealing with Spain during its brutal effort to suppress an insurrection in Cuba against Spanish imperial rule.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Ulysses S. Grant in 1873.—
David Cason,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Once again, DeSantis has gone too far — in this case, ideologically and geographically — and people who surely voted for him in the state’s most conservative region are disgusted.—
Steve Bousquet,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Mar. 2025
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Trump and Vance have never seen war up close, but are still disgusted by it.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.—
Rebekah Taussig,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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History is full of coups by either the ruled or those in charge of order rebelling against those who hold high office.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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Early in the uprising, Masri's home in Homs was known a safe haven.—
Jawad Rizkallah,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2025
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Most of them were imprisoned during the first and second intifadas, uprisings by Palestinians against Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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Kay’s particular diet was a recurring talking point on the show, with condiments such as ketchup and mayo among the foods that repulsed the TV voice of the Yankees.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2025
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These same, once skeptical business leaders rallied around Trump in 2017 but were repulsed by many of his words and actions within eight months, withdrawing support, not returning to give him a second chance until now.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America’s Old West, and as a tool of terror and political repression in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.—
Jeffrey Collins,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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Business leaders face challenges, including the frantic need for speedy decision-making, unexpected market shifts, geopolitical volatility, internal mutinies, power plays and harrowing decisions that can hurt the livelihood of their teams by cutting jobs.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Recognizing key signs of the illness is especially pertinent right now: A measles outbreak spanning neighboring counties in Texas and New Mexico has sickened more than 120 people as of the time this story was published (up from around 20 cases earlier this month) and killed one child.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
28 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article Newly appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to dismiss a rare measles outbreak that has killed a child in Texas and sickened more than 120 people.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Or just a brilliant disguise?’ - from Brilliant Disguise Rock 'n' roll has always embodied rebellion and dissent.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Set in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus was raised, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Revolt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolt. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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