Verb

(en verb)

(intransitive) To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.

After the performance, the audience applauded for five minutes

(intransitive) To praise, or express approval for something or someone.

Although we don't like your methods, we applaud your motives.

* Shakespeare

By the gods, I do applaud his courage.

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Verb

(head)

(revolt)

Verb

To rebel, particularly against authority.

The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.

* Shakespeare

Our discontented counties do revolt .

To repel greatly.

Your brother revolts me!

* Burke

This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.

* J. Morley

To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.

To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.

(Spenser)

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.

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

* Milton

Still revolt when truth would set them free.

* J. Morley

His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.