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Definition of revolt in English:

revolt

verb rɪˈvəʊltrəˈvoʊlt
  • 1no object Take violent action against an established government or ruler; rebel.

    the Iceni revolted and had to be suppressed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was only over one year later that the opposition was able to revolt against and topple Milosevic.
    • Or will it revolt against being dragged down into economic and climatic chaos?
    • Are they waiting for the public to revolt one day?
    • On the other hand, the first thing the people of Sidon did when they revolted was to make for the local paradise and inflict terrible injuries on the vegetation.
    • Five calls described the intent of passengers and surviving crew members to revolt against the hijackers.
    • The ballet tells the story of the slave-leader Spartacus who incites his fellow slaves to revolt against their Roman oppressors.
    • Perhaps the best evidence of the poor quality of Texas' public schools is the fact that its graduates didn't spend Independence Day revolting against their state legislators.
    • This violence is directed towards other national states, and the state's own population who revolt against the oppression they suffer.
    • Other planets that are revolting have already aligned under a human leader, and unless we create order here, we shall surely fall, be it to Talon, or the Kashiza, or even ourselves.
    • He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers.
    • Beleaguered Bush aides say they can fight who they're supposed to, Democrats, not fellow Republicans revolting against their leader.
    • Instead, he calls for the poor to rise up and revolt.
    • Efforts on the part of the Sicilians to revolt against the new laws were quickly suppressed, often brutally.
    • All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born.
    • Even as they haggled over the small print with the French, British officials were encouraging Arab nobles to revolt against the Ottomans.
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina rose up and revolted against the high taxes imposed by the Ottoman authorities.
    • And there will be blood, too, or else people will start to revolt against the Lone Guard and Miskavel's purification.
    • The exiles followed the Dalai Lama, the supreme Tibetan Buddhist leader, who fled Tibet after a failed 1959 revolt against Chinese rule.
    • The issues over which the five revolted were: the presidency, federalism, women's rights, and the permanent constitution.
    • He urged people to revolt against the established government and turn the revolution against the king although he preferred to remain aloof from the actual events.
    Synonyms
    rebel, rise up, rise, take to the streets, take up arms, riot, mutiny, take part in an uprising, show resistance
    resist/oppose authority, disobey/defy authority, refuse to obey orders, be insubordinate
    1. 1.1 Refuse to acknowledge someone or something as having authority.
      voters may revolt when they realize the cost of the measures
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And then these Daarians come, and take over, and now you see normally law-abiding citizens revolting left and right!
      • I was even one of those progressive Sixties kids who revolted, refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
      • None of the few people that revolted were able to break the peace.
      • Those of you with families, boyfriends, girlfriends, just-friends - revolt against Hallmark and the diamond industry.
      • If the devil was a real angel to begin with, how ever did he come to revolt against God?
      • How to care for children, especially those in their teens, who can be very rebellious, revolting and resistant?
      • Just as voters tend to revolt at by-elections, those polled may use the opportunity to register their resentment over government policy.
      • They may be hard to take seriously as radical insurrectionists, but Scotland's doctors are revolting.
      • Sections of the Indian military, frustrated by the past year's border deployment without action, could revolt and refuse to attack Hindus.
      • Now the clubs in Zimbabwe have started to revolt against the power of the ZCU and their costly rebranding.
      • There are a rising number of strikes taking place in the public sector, as workers revolt against low pay and privatisation.
      • The people are revolting over the high rates rises.
      • And the dictatorship will be created by the very people who are revolting against authority.
      • Traditionally, spies revolt against Labour governments because they fear the party is made up of unpatriotic reds.
      • There is no textual evidence to suggest that Jesus was concerned to see the repressive tax system changed, or that he urged the tax-collectors to revolt against it.
      • Marasha said women should not revolt against the custom but rather establish platforms to raise their concerns and investigate the deep purpose of the custom.
      • Pressure is growing on Fianna Fáil Deputies in the West of Ireland to revolt against current government spending policies which could spell disaster for the region.
      • Four days later Anderton, who was last week appointed chief executive of Hearts Football Club, resigned, saying that member clubs should revolt against Mackay's sacking.
      • The week past has shown, for the first time, that Labour backbenchers have found out how to revolt against ministers and that they are willing to do so.
      • Trudeau, who at age 40 still lived with his mother, emanated an attractive temptation to revolt against custom, to fight the status quo.
    2. 1.2as adjective revoltedarchaic Having rebelled.
      the emperor was leading an expedition against the revolted Bretons
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Quite often it is the gut reaction of angry, scared or revolted people seeking revenge or retribution.
      • What interest had the latter in regaining the Irresistible or subduing a revolted crew?
      • On 24 Dec 1659 the revolted army units resolved to restore the Parliament and approached the Speaker, William Lenthal, asking him to resume his authority that he presumably had never regarded as lost.
  • 2with object Cause to feel disgust.

    he was revolted by the stench that greeted him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rashid, whose own Islam is a civil and humane affair, is revolted by these tribal sectaries.
    • My hands grew back, but alas all of my fingers are webbed together with revolting flaps of skin, and I am typing with my tongue.
    • I found myself strangely, nay, irresistibly attracted to this shocking and revolting oppressor of women and blacks.
    • People who enjoy sport were given a sharp, revolting reminder of what really matters.
    • That is unspeakable and one of the many revolting facts as to why prostitution should be abolished and not legalised.
    • Shocked, I reeled away in horror, fearing that some passing stranger might take me for a rubber fetishist, a thought that appals and revolts me.
    • No wonder I didn't know I had a brain when I was at home, or that I wasn't a totally revolting person.
    • The exhibition has both fascinated and revolted its audiences.
    • He was revolted by Taylor, whose job was to ensure the company's IT system ran smoothly.
    • The so-called loyalties, sense of belonging and togetherness are revolting cliches.
    • He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
    • Tarantino is happy to have his audience laughing one moment and revolted the next.
    • Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
    • The nurse's colleagues were clearly revolted, as was the other male character.
    • She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.
    • The thought of that revolted me and I came very, very close to throwing up there and then.
    • I was always revolted by that triumphal sense of an achieved empire - to me it was appalling.
    • It's hard to imagine anyone else adding such sweet and vulnerable nuances to an otherwise revolting character.
    • Most who oppose the war are instinctively revolted by its slaughter.
    • Diego Martin has suddenly become the scene of some of the most revolting crimes.
    Synonyms
    disgust, sicken, nauseate, make someone sick, make someone feel sick, make someone's gorge rise, turn someone's stomach, upset, be repugnant to, repel, repulse, be repulsive to, make someone's flesh crawl, make someone shudder, put off, offend, be offensive to, cause offence to, shock, horrify
    informal turn off
    North American informal gross out
    1. 2.1archaic no object Feel disgust.
      'tis just the main assumption reason most revolts at
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What revolted was that Oliva reached his damnable decision alone.
      • But it is so ethically problematic that the mind revolts at the thought that it could be true.
      • ‘Common sense revolts at the idea,’ Justice Douglas wrote.
noun rɪˈvəʊltrəˈvoʊlt
  • 1An attempt to end the authority of a person or body by rebelling.

    a country-wide revolt against the government
    mass noun the peasants rose in revolt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One resident who spoke to the Los Angles Times described the uprising as a popular revolt against the occupying power.
    • What was originally a graphic novel, updating an Orwellian tale of revolt against an authoritarian government to the Eighties, has become a movie that updates the same themes to the present day.
    • It was a popular revolt against the British troops that had just arrived to secure the surrender of the Japanese.
    • Massood trained as an architect before leading a revolt against the Soviet-backed Marxist regime in Afghanistan in 1977.
    • She was the mistress of a king and provoked a revolt against him which caused him to lose his kingdom.
    • Linebaugh and Rediker substantiate the evangelical underpinnings of proletarian revolts seen briefly before in the story of Francis, the Pentecostal maid.
    • By December 1139, Unur was in open revolt against Zengi's authority, and Zengi laid siege to the city, without success.
    • The day William Walker arrives in Queimada he begins his search for a slave who might lead a revolt against the white masters.
    • Nationalist revolts broke out in the Overseas Provinces of Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique in 1961-1964.
    • What his ears were picking up last week were the first signs of a peasant's revolt against Brown.
    • The area, a focus for the Kurdish revolt against Ankara, is in a military state of emergency.
    • The rural population rose in revolt against the barons, who responded by mobilizing their private armies.
    • The original song, written during the revolution of 1830, exalted the revolt against the ‘arbitrary’ power of the Dutch king.
    • A peasant leader, Titu Mir led a revolt against the British in Bengal in 1830-31, and was killed in the course of it.
    • On July 23rd 1952, Nasser helped to organise a revolt against the Royal Family and King Farouk was overthrown after a few days of bloodless rebellion.
    • Spartacus is the tale of a slave who was trained as a gladiator and led a bloody revolt against his Roman masters more than 2,000 years ago.
    • Uzbekistan is the scene of the fourth revolt against authority in countries that used to be part of the USSR.
    • The revolt against this new phase of imperialism, however, has clearly only just begun.
    • They learned to play while exiled in the refugee camps of Libya, at a time when the nomadic Tamashek people were in armed revolt against the Malian authorities.
    • During this time he led an uprising and mass peasant revolt against the ruling Poles.
    Synonyms
    rebellion, revolution, insurrection, mutiny, uprising, riot, rioting, rising, insurgence, insurgency, coup, overthrow, seizure of power, regime change, subversion, sedition, anarchy, disorder, protest, strike, act of resistance, act of defiance
    French coup d'état, jacquerie
    German putsch
    1. 1.1 A refusal to continue to obey or conform.
      a revolt over tax increases
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The prospect of a revolt convinced UEFA to increase the clubs' shares of the Champions League pot - yet that hasn't halted the demands for reform.
      • The poll tax revolts are a warning of the fury that changes to local authority finances can trigger.
      • The town is leading a revolt against Manchester's trailblazing cow parade next month by organizing a rival sheep procession.
      • The essay is a revolt against the hegemony of imagination.
      • There's a tax revolt under way in Upstate New York.
      • A sign of things to come for McConnell was demonstrated by the widespread revolt against his nominee for deputy presiding officer.
      • The twentieth century has witnessed an almost world-wide revolt against forms of authority that have generally been recognised by the human race for millennia.
      • The traders, already feeling persecuted by the new system, rose in revolt against proposed restrictions, citing increased costs at a time of reduced revenues.
      • They are the latest, most dangerous incarnation of that staple of immigration literature, the revolt of the second generation.
      • If the peso continues plummeting, however, a popular revolt cannot be discounted.
      • The diseased body stages a revolt against those functions that biographers record, reasserting the animal in pain, so similar in the end to other animals in pain.
      • Occidentalism, say the authors, is a revolt against rationalism, secularism and individualism.
      • Beyond that, it is a revolt against cross-party rule by political oligarchies, frustrating the known wishes of the population.
      • Some of this is part of an adolescent revolt against authority dictated by peer pressure.
      • It is this authenticity which lends credence to a runaway plot of student revolt against authority.
      • I'm thinking that, just in time, this could be a revolt against branding, which is a revolution I would join.
      • A proper review of the Sun's position would extend back months before April 1993, when the tax revolt blossomed into a two smallish demonstrations.
      • Houghton's plays dealt with revolt against parental authority and generational conflict.
      • Tax revolts have had enormous impacts in history.
      • The gas revolt is the second wave of protest to rock Bolivia this year.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French révolte (noun), révolter (verb), from Italian rivoltare, based on Latin revolvere 'roll back' (see revolve).

  • revolve from Late Middle English:

    The Latin verb volvere had the sense ‘to turn round, roll, tumble’; add re- in front and you get meaning such as ‘turn back, turn round’. This is the basic idea behind revolve and its offshoots: revolution (Late Middle English) which only came to mean the overthrow of a government in 1600, and which developed the form rev for the turning over of a motor in the early 20th century; and revolt (mid 16th century) initially used politically, and developing the sense ‘to make someone turn away in disgust’ in the mid 18th century. The sense ‘roll, tumble’ of volvere developed into vault, both for the sense ‘leap’ (mid 16th century) which came via Old French volter ‘to turn (a horse), gambol’, and for the arch that springs up to form a roof (Middle English). The turning sense is found in voluble (Middle English) initially used to mean ‘turning’, but was used for words rolling out of the mouth by the late 16th century, and in volume (Late Middle English) originally a rolled scroll rather than a book, but with the sense ‘quantity’ coming from an obsolete meaning ‘size or extent (of a book)’ by the early 16th century. Convoluted (late 18th century) comes from convolvere ‘rolled together, intertwined’ (the plant convolvulus, from the same root, that climbs by turning its stem around a support already existed as a word in Latin, where it could also mean a caterpillar that rolls itself up in a leaf); while devolve (Late Middle English) comes from its opposite devolvere ‘to unroll, roll down’; and involve (Late Middle English) from involvere ‘to roll in’.

 
 

Definition of revolt in US English:

revolt

verbrəˈvoʊltrəˈvōlt
  • 1no object Rise in rebellion.

    the insurgents revolted and had to be suppressed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Beleaguered Bush aides say they can fight who they're supposed to, Democrats, not fellow Republicans revolting against their leader.
    • The ballet tells the story of the slave-leader Spartacus who incites his fellow slaves to revolt against their Roman oppressors.
    • And there will be blood, too, or else people will start to revolt against the Lone Guard and Miskavel's purification.
    • Perhaps the best evidence of the poor quality of Texas' public schools is the fact that its graduates didn't spend Independence Day revolting against their state legislators.
    • The issues over which the five revolted were: the presidency, federalism, women's rights, and the permanent constitution.
    • Are they waiting for the public to revolt one day?
    • Efforts on the part of the Sicilians to revolt against the new laws were quickly suppressed, often brutally.
    • Instead, he calls for the poor to rise up and revolt.
    • Even as they haggled over the small print with the French, British officials were encouraging Arab nobles to revolt against the Ottomans.
    • He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers.
    • All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born.
    • He urged people to revolt against the established government and turn the revolution against the king although he preferred to remain aloof from the actual events.
    • Or will it revolt against being dragged down into economic and climatic chaos?
    • The exiles followed the Dalai Lama, the supreme Tibetan Buddhist leader, who fled Tibet after a failed 1959 revolt against Chinese rule.
    • This violence is directed towards other national states, and the state's own population who revolt against the oppression they suffer.
    • Five calls described the intent of passengers and surviving crew members to revolt against the hijackers.
    • It was only over one year later that the opposition was able to revolt against and topple Milosevic.
    • Other planets that are revolting have already aligned under a human leader, and unless we create order here, we shall surely fall, be it to Talon, or the Kashiza, or even ourselves.
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina rose up and revolted against the high taxes imposed by the Ottoman authorities.
    • On the other hand, the first thing the people of Sidon did when they revolted was to make for the local paradise and inflict terrible injuries on the vegetation.
    Synonyms
    rebel, rise up, rise, take to the streets, take up arms, riot, mutiny, take part in an uprising, show resistance
    1. 1.1 Refuse to acknowledge someone or something as having authority.
      voters may revolt when they realize the cost of the measures
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was even one of those progressive Sixties kids who revolted, refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
      • Those of you with families, boyfriends, girlfriends, just-friends - revolt against Hallmark and the diamond industry.
      • Pressure is growing on Fianna Fáil Deputies in the West of Ireland to revolt against current government spending policies which could spell disaster for the region.
      • None of the few people that revolted were able to break the peace.
      • Sections of the Indian military, frustrated by the past year's border deployment without action, could revolt and refuse to attack Hindus.
      • They may be hard to take seriously as radical insurrectionists, but Scotland's doctors are revolting.
      • How to care for children, especially those in their teens, who can be very rebellious, revolting and resistant?
      • Now the clubs in Zimbabwe have started to revolt against the power of the ZCU and their costly rebranding.
      • And the dictatorship will be created by the very people who are revolting against authority.
      • And then these Daarians come, and take over, and now you see normally law-abiding citizens revolting left and right!
      • Marasha said women should not revolt against the custom but rather establish platforms to raise their concerns and investigate the deep purpose of the custom.
      • If the devil was a real angel to begin with, how ever did he come to revolt against God?
      • Trudeau, who at age 40 still lived with his mother, emanated an attractive temptation to revolt against custom, to fight the status quo.
      • Traditionally, spies revolt against Labour governments because they fear the party is made up of unpatriotic reds.
      • There are a rising number of strikes taking place in the public sector, as workers revolt against low pay and privatisation.
      • There is no textual evidence to suggest that Jesus was concerned to see the repressive tax system changed, or that he urged the tax-collectors to revolt against it.
      • The people are revolting over the high rates rises.
      • The week past has shown, for the first time, that Labour backbenchers have found out how to revolt against ministers and that they are willing to do so.
      • Just as voters tend to revolt at by-elections, those polled may use the opportunity to register their resentment over government policy.
      • Four days later Anderton, who was last week appointed chief executive of Hearts Football Club, resigned, saying that member clubs should revolt against Mackay's sacking.
    2. 1.2as adjective revoltedarchaic Having rebelled or revolted.
      the revolted Bretons
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On 24 Dec 1659 the revolted army units resolved to restore the Parliament and approached the Speaker, William Lenthal, asking him to resume his authority that he presumably had never regarded as lost.
      • Quite often it is the gut reaction of angry, scared or revolted people seeking revenge or retribution.
      • What interest had the latter in regaining the Irresistible or subduing a revolted crew?
  • 2with object Cause to feel disgust.

    he was revolted by the stench that greeted him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was revolted by Taylor, whose job was to ensure the company's IT system ran smoothly.
    • I was always revolted by that triumphal sense of an achieved empire - to me it was appalling.
    • She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.
    • Shocked, I reeled away in horror, fearing that some passing stranger might take me for a rubber fetishist, a thought that appals and revolts me.
    • Rashid, whose own Islam is a civil and humane affair, is revolted by these tribal sectaries.
    • Tarantino is happy to have his audience laughing one moment and revolted the next.
    • People who enjoy sport were given a sharp, revolting reminder of what really matters.
    • Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
    • The so-called loyalties, sense of belonging and togetherness are revolting cliches.
    • It's hard to imagine anyone else adding such sweet and vulnerable nuances to an otherwise revolting character.
    • That is unspeakable and one of the many revolting facts as to why prostitution should be abolished and not legalised.
    • The nurse's colleagues were clearly revolted, as was the other male character.
    • The thought of that revolted me and I came very, very close to throwing up there and then.
    • The exhibition has both fascinated and revolted its audiences.
    • No wonder I didn't know I had a brain when I was at home, or that I wasn't a totally revolting person.
    • I found myself strangely, nay, irresistibly attracted to this shocking and revolting oppressor of women and blacks.
    • My hands grew back, but alas all of my fingers are webbed together with revolting flaps of skin, and I am typing with my tongue.
    • Most who oppose the war are instinctively revolted by its slaughter.
    • He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
    • Diego Martin has suddenly become the scene of some of the most revolting crimes.
    Synonyms
    revolting, disgusting, abhorrent, repellent, repugnant, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, uninviting, displeasing
    disgusting, sickening, nauseating, stomach-turning, stomach-churning, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, appalling, abominable, hideous, horrible, awful, dreadful, terrible, obnoxious, vile, nasty, foul, loathsome, offensive, objectionable, off-putting, distasteful, disagreeable, uninviting
    disgust, sicken, nauseate, make someone sick, make someone feel sick, make someone's gorge rise, turn someone's stomach, upset, be repugnant to, repel, repulse, be repulsive to, make someone's flesh crawl, make someone shudder, put off, offend, be offensive to, cause offence to, shock, horrify
    1. 2.1archaic no object Feel strong disgust.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But it is so ethically problematic that the mind revolts at the thought that it could be true.
      • ‘Common sense revolts at the idea,’ Justice Douglas wrote.
      • What revolted was that Oliva reached his damnable decision alone.
nounrəˈvoʊltrəˈvōlt
  • 1An attempt to put an end to the authority of a person or body by rebelling.

    a countrywide revolt against the central government
    the peasants rose in revolt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They learned to play while exiled in the refugee camps of Libya, at a time when the nomadic Tamashek people were in armed revolt against the Malian authorities.
    • The original song, written during the revolution of 1830, exalted the revolt against the ‘arbitrary’ power of the Dutch king.
    • Nationalist revolts broke out in the Overseas Provinces of Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique in 1961-1964.
    • What was originally a graphic novel, updating an Orwellian tale of revolt against an authoritarian government to the Eighties, has become a movie that updates the same themes to the present day.
    • What his ears were picking up last week were the first signs of a peasant's revolt against Brown.
    • One resident who spoke to the Los Angles Times described the uprising as a popular revolt against the occupying power.
    • She was the mistress of a king and provoked a revolt against him which caused him to lose his kingdom.
    • Spartacus is the tale of a slave who was trained as a gladiator and led a bloody revolt against his Roman masters more than 2,000 years ago.
    • By December 1139, Unur was in open revolt against Zengi's authority, and Zengi laid siege to the city, without success.
    • A peasant leader, Titu Mir led a revolt against the British in Bengal in 1830-31, and was killed in the course of it.
    • Linebaugh and Rediker substantiate the evangelical underpinnings of proletarian revolts seen briefly before in the story of Francis, the Pentecostal maid.
    • On July 23rd 1952, Nasser helped to organise a revolt against the Royal Family and King Farouk was overthrown after a few days of bloodless rebellion.
    • The day William Walker arrives in Queimada he begins his search for a slave who might lead a revolt against the white masters.
    • The revolt against this new phase of imperialism, however, has clearly only just begun.
    • The rural population rose in revolt against the barons, who responded by mobilizing their private armies.
    • Uzbekistan is the scene of the fourth revolt against authority in countries that used to be part of the USSR.
    • Massood trained as an architect before leading a revolt against the Soviet-backed Marxist regime in Afghanistan in 1977.
    • The area, a focus for the Kurdish revolt against Ankara, is in a military state of emergency.
    • During this time he led an uprising and mass peasant revolt against the ruling Poles.
    • It was a popular revolt against the British troops that had just arrived to secure the surrender of the Japanese.
    Synonyms
    rebellion, revolution, insurrection, mutiny, uprising, riot, rioting, rising, insurgence, insurgency, coup, overthrow, seizure of power, regime change, subversion, sedition, anarchy, disorder, protest, strike, act of resistance, act of defiance
    1. 1.1 A refusal to continue to obey or conform.
      a revolt over tax increases
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The gas revolt is the second wave of protest to rock Bolivia this year.
      • A sign of things to come for McConnell was demonstrated by the widespread revolt against his nominee for deputy presiding officer.
      • Houghton's plays dealt with revolt against parental authority and generational conflict.
      • The prospect of a revolt convinced UEFA to increase the clubs' shares of the Champions League pot - yet that hasn't halted the demands for reform.
      • The essay is a revolt against the hegemony of imagination.
      • The twentieth century has witnessed an almost world-wide revolt against forms of authority that have generally been recognised by the human race for millennia.
      • The poll tax revolts are a warning of the fury that changes to local authority finances can trigger.
      • If the peso continues plummeting, however, a popular revolt cannot be discounted.
      • It is this authenticity which lends credence to a runaway plot of student revolt against authority.
      • Beyond that, it is a revolt against cross-party rule by political oligarchies, frustrating the known wishes of the population.
      • Occidentalism, say the authors, is a revolt against rationalism, secularism and individualism.
      • Tax revolts have had enormous impacts in history.
      • Some of this is part of an adolescent revolt against authority dictated by peer pressure.
      • They are the latest, most dangerous incarnation of that staple of immigration literature, the revolt of the second generation.
      • The traders, already feeling persecuted by the new system, rose in revolt against proposed restrictions, citing increased costs at a time of reduced revenues.
      • I'm thinking that, just in time, this could be a revolt against branding, which is a revolution I would join.
      • The town is leading a revolt against Manchester's trailblazing cow parade next month by organizing a rival sheep procession.
      • A proper review of the Sun's position would extend back months before April 1993, when the tax revolt blossomed into a two smallish demonstrations.
      • There's a tax revolt under way in Upstate New York.
      • The diseased body stages a revolt against those functions that biographers record, reasserting the animal in pain, so similar in the end to other animals in pain.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French révolte (noun), révolter (verb), from Italian rivoltare, based on Latin revolvere ‘roll back’ (see revolve).

 
 
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