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REVOLT
/ɹɪˈvoʊlt/
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What does REVOLT mean?
verb
- To rebel, particularly against authority.
- To repel greatly.
- To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
More meanings (4)
verb
- To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
- To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
- to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
noun
- An act of revolting.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈvoʊlt/
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All the hateful powers of the Under-world were striving against him, and a spirit of revolt and revenge filled his heart.
What Machiavelli beheld round him in Italy was a civic disorder in which there was oppression without statecraft, and revolt without patriotism.
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As soon as I get the upper hand of him a little more, I am going to urge him on to revolt.
Were half to half the world by th’ ears and he Upon my party, I’d revolt, to make Only my wars with him.
If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power.