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revolt English

Meaning revolt meaning

What does revolt mean?
Definitions in simple English

revolt Verb

— to act against authority The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserve — to greatly repel Your brother revolts me!

revolt Noun

— an act of revolt

revolt

— noun (= rebellion) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another — verb make revolution The people revolted when bread prices tripled again — verb (= sicken) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of The pornographic pictures sickened us — verb (= disgust) fill with distaste This spoilt food disgusts me

Synonyms revolt synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as revolt?

revolt English » English

rebellion rebel uprising mutiny insurrection riot revolution insurgency disgust rising rise sedition repel protest insurgence rise up resist oppose nauseate unrest struggle stir sicken commotion betray agitation uprise upheaval turmoil treason rise in rebellion rebel against outbreak insurgent gross out disorder churn up be up in arms antipathy animosity wriggle war walk out upset uproar uprest upraising unsettle unruly unfaithfulness

Topics revolt topics

What do people use revolt to talk about?
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Rebel against authority
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Disgusted

Conjugation revolt conjugation

How do you conjugate revolt?

revolt · verb

Examples revolt examples

How do I use revolt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It will take a long time to suppress the revolt.
The army was called to suppress the revolt.
A revolt broke out.
The military quashed the revolt within a matter of hours.
On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.
People rose in revolt against the King.
In 1911, a revolt broke out.
The revolt was put down with little trouble.

Movie subtitles

It is our unshakeable belief in ourselves. that is our hope for the youth. to carry on the work which has been put before them in the stormy years. of the revolt of 1918 in Munich. and which is already part of the entire German nation's history.
I'll organize revolt.
There's a strange new spirit at work in the world today a spirit of revolt.
Good heavens, isn't there any revolt in you?
But, Alec, suppose the miners do revolt? They blew out the front of the bank, didn't they?
This is, a revolt!
In this vast tribe, members of the female sex. rule and govern. and systematically deny equal rights to the men. made weak and puny by years of subservience. too weak to revolt.
My Lord, the revolt is growing.
If you loved your father, you wouldn't be in this state of revolt.
Don Julian Alvarado, a prince of this country has been persuaded by England to revolt against Spain.
They were in revolt against Rome.
Dead or in revolt.
Boss, there's a revolt in the hall!
The Picts are in revolt.
How did I know that Essex would rise and revolt?
The friar urges me to lead the caballeros in a revolt which would surely fail against a garrison of trained soldiers.
But suppose the miners do revolt? They blew out the front of the bank.
That was the symbol of revolt.
My Lord, the revolt is growing. The guards can no longer restrain the rioters.
It's a planned revolt.
I'm 70 now. Too old to revolt. Too old to challenge authority. however evil.
But, Alec, suppose the miners do revolt?
Let's revolt, Ed.
The victors over the revolt in the west!
We are going to subdue a revolt by the monks of Hakusanji.
Thou wilt revolt and fly to him, I fear.
It is not a revolt like the others.
Its presence with Feofar Khan. Gives the revolt of the Tartar a particularly dangerous significance.
People without a conscience revolt me.
A house revolt!
For reason in revolt now thunders.
This revolt has become a disaster.

News and current affairs

Pulling away from dictators without trying to take credit for or hijack the revolt was exactly what was required.
The US was born in a citizens' revolt against British imperial power.
The specificity of the French situation is that the revolt is targeted against the state, and more precisely against the police forces.
If Californians refuse, Obama could face a widening revolt - against the idea of expanded government as the chief response to what ails America at home.
And they, too, are in angry revolt against party leaders, who are believed to have compromised themselves simply by trying to govern.
The defeat of the military revolt was the first time that the republican authority of Paris had been asserted over the pieds noirs who had helped to bring down the Fourth Republic.
Trumpism, then, or Grilloism, is a revolt against the professional politicians.
This is an old idea from the California tax revolt of twenty-five years ago that was an important part of America's supply side revolution.
Only when the difference between gross and after-tax income becomes painfully obvious will tax payers revolt against the taxes they bear.
Today's upsurge of micro-nationalism is not just a consequence of the revolt against empires: it is also a revolt against globalization.
As support for President George W. Bush in the United States has crumbled over the past year, perhaps the most surprising element is the revolt of economists and observers of economic policy.
It is not that Republicans and conservatives think that the Bush administration has adopted the wrong method, but that they don't see any method at all that has driven them into their (late) fiscal-policy revolt.
The EU Commission must act now or face a possible revolt from the smaller countries.
But if they maintain large budget deficits and continue to monetize them, at some point - after the current deflationary forces become more subdued - bond markets will revolt.
The broader message from the Greek and French elections is that the attempt to impose a benevolent creditors' dictatorship is now being met by a debtors' revolt.
But, if governments maintain large budget deficits and continue to monetize them as they have been doing, at some point - after the current deflationary forces become more subdued - bond markets will revolt.
As for Syria, the revolt against one of the most secular autocracies in the Arab world has degenerated into a fight to the death between Sunnis and Shia that is spilling over to other countries in the region.

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