Horrify vs Revolt - What's the difference?
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To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
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
As verbs the difference between horrify and revolt
is that horrify is to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror while revolt is to rebel, particularly against authority.As a noun revolt is
an act of revolt.horrify
English
Verb
- The haunted house was horrifying , from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.
Synonyms
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revolt
English
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.