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/rivˈoʊltɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Revolt v. t.

To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. (Obs.)

To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings. "This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds." "To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason."

Revolt v. i. (past & past part. revolted; pres. part. revolting)

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. "But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free." "His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time."

Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. "Our discontented counties do revolt." "Plant those that have revolted in the van."

To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

adjective

Revolting adj. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.

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"Revolting" Quotes from Famous Books

... liquor and the seasons would seem to be blended in very equal quantities. Such a countenance, lighted up by a gleam of successful management, not to say with hopes and wishes that it will hardly do to dwell on, could not but be revolting to a youth of Harry Mulford's generous feelings, and most of all to one who entertained the sentiments which he was quite conscious of entertaining for Rose Budd. The young man made no reply, but turned his face toward ...

— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

... to continue with the horses, which had considerable weight with me, and however revolting the idea might be at first, it was a resource which I foresaw the desperate circumstances we were in must soon compel us to adopt. It was certainly horrible to contemplate the destruction of the noble animals that had accompanied us so far, but ere long I well knew that such would ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... out of his chair and waddled with bent knees towards the door. I do not know whether the spectacle was more ridiculous than revolting. When he had gone one ...

— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham

... count their money with a pleas'd, half-puzzled look. Occasionally, but not often, there are some thoroughly African physiognomies, very black in color, large, protruding lips, low forehead, &c. But I have to say that I do not see one utterly revolting face. ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... objections. First, I think it is not prudent for a person who has already been put forward beyond what many people think his pretensions entitle him to, and who has still much way to make for himself, to incur the risk of shocking and revolting the feelings of almost every one, but those who are most partial to him, by accepting a situation for which he must be thought so little qualified, and which will be judged so much above his rank, either in point of general situation in the country, or with respect to any official situation in ...

— Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third - From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2) • The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

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