Verb

(en verb)

(transitive)  To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.

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(intransitive)  To feel or become offended, take insult.

(transitive)  To physically harm, pain.

(transitive)  To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.

(intransitive)  To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.

(transitive)  To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.

(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical)  To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

* 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,

"If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."

* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),

"If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."

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.