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revolt

re·volt

UK/ɹɪˈvəʊlt/ US/ɹɪˈvoʊlt/ fairly common
noun (1) verb (3)

noun

1.

verb

1.

make revolution

  • “The people revolted when bread prices tripled again”
2.

fill with distaste

  • “This spoilt food disgusts me”
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3.

cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

  • “The pornographic pictures sickened us”
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Origin

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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