Dictionary Entry
revolt
revolt is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
- 5transitive verb
To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
- 6noun
The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
- 7noun
A revolter.
- 8noun
organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
- 9verb
cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
"The pornographic pictures sickened us"
- 10verb
fill with distaste
"This spoilt food disgusts me"
- 11verb
make revolution
"The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
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