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revolt

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/

The English word “revolt” has 7 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To rebel, particularly against authority.
  2. To repel greatly.
  3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
  4. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
  5. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  6. to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy

noun

  1. An act of revolting.

Etymology

Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus). Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ).

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