Appall vs Revolt - What's the difference?
appall | revolt |
To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay.
* Edward Hyde Claredon
(obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
* Wyatt
(obsolete) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce.
* Holland
(obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
(obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.
To rebel, particularly against authority.
* Shakespeare
To repel greatly.
* Burke
* J. Morley
To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at .
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
* Milton
* J. Morley
In lang=en terms the difference between appall and revolt
is that appall is to depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay while revolt is to be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at .As verbs the difference between appall and revolt
is that appall is to depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay while revolt is to rebel, particularly against authority.As a noun revolt is
an act of revolt.appall
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Alternative forms
* appal (occasionally in Commonwealth English)Verb
(en verb)- The sight appalled the stoutest heart.
- The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum.
- The answer that ye made to me, my dear, / Hath so appalled my countenance.
- Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold.
- (Gower)
Synonyms
* dismay, terrify, daunt, frighten, affright, scare, depress * See alsorevolt
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Verb
- The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
- Our discontented counties do revolt .
- Your brother revolts me!
- This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.
- To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.
- (Spenser)
- The stomach revolts''' at such food; his nature '''revolts at cruelty.
- Still revolt when truth would set them free.
- His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.
