revolting

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.
2. (transitive) To repel greatly.
   • Your brother revolts me!
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
6. to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy

   Antonyms:

   counterrevolt

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