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revolt

Syllables: re·voltUK/ɹɪˈvəʊlt//ɹɪˈvoʊlt/

revolt verb: to rebel, particularly against authority.

Verb

revolt (third-person singular simple present revolts, present participle revolting, simple past and past participle revolted)

  1. (intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.
    • The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
    • Our diſcontented Counties doe reuoltc. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (transitive) To repel greatly.
    • Your brother revolts me!
    • I shall be told, that this abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new...
  3. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
    • The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
  4. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
    • The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 567
  5. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
    • And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free.1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XII. On the Same [Tetrachordon].”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 57
    • His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.1886, John Morley, The Life of Turgot
  6. to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
    Antonyms:
    counterrevolt

Noun

revolt (countable and uncountable, plural revolts)

  1. An act of revolting.
    • — It's a revolt?
      — No, Sire, it's a revolution...
    • The first recorded use of “insurrection” in English, indeed, is in parliamentary papers describing the armed revolt led by Jack Cade in 1450, who marched on London to protest against the corruption of Henry VI’s government. […] Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell...2021 January 13, Steven Poole, “'Insurrection': how an old word for an old thing was Trumped”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021

revolt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

revolt in Hindi

to rebel — see also rebel, rise up
विद्रोह करना vidroh karnā
act of revolting
विद्रोह vidroh

revolt in Tamil

கலகம், கிளர்ச்சி, கிளர்ச்சி செய், புரட்சி செய், வெறுப்படை

revolt in Urdu

آشوب, بغاوت, فتنہ, غدر, بغاوت کرنا, فتنہ برپا کرنا

revolt in Bengali

বিদ্রোহ করা, ঘৃণা জাগানো
More languagesFewer languages
revolt in Telugu
తిరుగుబాటు చేయండి
revolt in Malayalam
പ്രക്ഷോഭമുണ്ടാക്കുക, വെറുപ്പുതോന്നുക, ലഹള കൂട്ടുക, നിയമം ലംഘിക്കുക
revolt in Kannada
ದಂಗೆ, ಬಂಡಾಯ, ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ, ದಂಗೆ ಏಳು
revolt in Gujarati
વિપ્લવ viplav, બંડ baṇḍ
revolt in Arabic
ثَارَ ṯāra, تَمَرَّدَ tamarrada, عِصْيَان ʕiṣyān, تَمَرُّد tamarrud
revolt in Malay
berontak
revolt in Indonesian
berbalik, pemberontakan
revolt in Persian
شورش šureš, طغیان toġyân, بلوا balvâ
revolt in Thai
การกบฏ gaan-gà-bòt
revolt in Vietnamese
cuộc nổi dậy, cuộc khởi nghĩa

Examples of revolt in a sentence

  • This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.
  • The feudal subjects decided to revolt.
  • He hijacked the Bear Flag revolt, calling himself Oso Numero Uno (Number One Bear).

All 40 example sentences with revolt

Synonyms of revolt

Antonyms

Forms of revolt

Verb
third-person singular presentrevolts
present participlerevolting
past participlerevolted
pastrevolted
second-person singular present (archaic)revoltest
second-person singular past (archaic)revoltedst
third-person singular present (archaic)revolteth
Noun
pluralrevolts

Past tense of revolt: revolted

Origin of revolt

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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Questions about revolt

What does revolt mean?
Revolt means to rebel, particularly against authority.
What is revolt in Hindi?
Revolt in Hindi is विद्रोह करना (vidroh karnā), विद्रोह (vidroh). See Revolt meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is revolt?
Revolt can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce revolt?
Revolt is pronounced /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/ (US).
What is the past tense of revolt?
The past tense of revolt is revolted.

Words near revolt in the dictionary

  1. revolatilized
  2. revolatilizes
  3. revolatilizing
  4. Revolorio
  5. Revolorios
  6. revolt
  7. revoltade
  8. revoltades
  9. revolted
  10. revoltedly
  11. revolter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: revolt (page history and authors); revolt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revolt (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revolt (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revolt (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revolt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revolt (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); બંડ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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