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
Harriet Shepherd, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
Go deeper: Mike Johnson struggles to contain a GOP budget revolt
Editor's note: This is a developing story.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
One Republican lawmaker familiar with the situation said the MAGA wing of the party revolted over keeping Turner in the post.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025
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Photographed by Ace Amir When Melancon started masking some 30 years ago, the accepted story of the Mardi Gras Indians started with the slave revolt.
—Harriet Shepherd, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
Go deeper: Mike Johnson struggles to contain a GOP budget revolt
Editor's note: This is a developing story.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Verb
Ecco qui! Don’t be surprised, however, if your delicious creamy sauce separates into a revolting lumpy paste.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
One Republican lawmaker familiar with the situation said the MAGA wing of the party revolted over keeping Turner in the post.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 15 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
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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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Farmers in western Pennsylvania who distilled the liquor rebelled in 1791, resulting in three years of conflict with government troops.—
Bill Hamilton,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Mar. 2025
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Most players respected the order but a few rebelled against it in newsworthy moments.—
Anthony Stitt,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Karla Jay remembers joining the second night of street protests during the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City.—
Orion Rummler,
Them,
17 Mar. 2025
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Egypt’s military governments have long been deeply distrustful of Islamist movements, notably the homegrown Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Sisi himself came to power in a military coup against a Muslim Brotherhood president who was elected after the uprising of 2011.—
Lisa Anderson,
Foreign Affairs,
14 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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That small rebellion becomes a bigger one when the course introduces her to a pack of younger friends, including 20something hunk Sean (Nico Hiraga).—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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The series, which premieres its second season April 22 on Disney+, thrusts viewers back into the heart of the galactic rebellion.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Revolt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolt. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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