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verb (used without object)
1.
to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
2.
to turn away in mental rebellion, utter disgust, or abhorrence (usually followed by from): He revolts from eating meat.
3.
to rebel in feeling (usually followed by against): to revolt against parental authority.
4.
to feel horror or aversion (usually followed by at): to revolt at the sight of blood.
verb (used with object)
5.
to affect with disgust or abhorrence: Such low behavior revolts me.
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Revolts
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1540–50; (v.) < Middle French revolter < Italian rivoltare to turn around < Vulgar Latin *revolvitāre, frequentative of Latin revolvere to roll back, unroll, revolve; (noun) < French révolte < Italian rivolta, derivative of rivoltare
1540–50; (v.) < Middle French revolter < Italian rivoltare to turn around < Vulgar Latin *revolvitāre, frequentative of Latin revolvere to roll back, unroll, revolve; (noun) < French révolte < Italian rivolta, derivative of rivoltare
Related forms
re·volt·er, noun
un·re·volt·ed, adjective
Synonyms
6. uprising, disorder, putsch.
6. uprising, disorder, putsch.
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Word Origin & History
revolt
1540s, from M.Fr. revolter, from It. rivoltare "to overthrow, overturn," from V.L. *revolvitare "to overturn, overthrow," frequentative of L. revolvere (pp. revolutus) "turn, roll back" (see revolve). The noun is from 1550s. Revolting is 1590s, originally subjective; objective
EXPANDsense of "repulsive" is first recorded 1806.
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