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Revolt vs Abash - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between revolt and abash

is that revolt is to rebel, particularly against authority while abash is to make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

As a noun revolt

is an act of revolt.

revolt

English

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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an act of revolt

    • Related terms

    * revolting ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • abash

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
    • "He was a man whom no check could abash ." – .
  • (obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

    • Usage notes

    * Of abash, confuse, confound: Abash' is a stronger word than '''confuse''', but not so strong as ' confound . ** We are abashed'' when struck either with sudden shame or with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was ''abashed'' by the look of his Master. So a modest youth is ''abashed in the presence of those who are greatly his superiors. ** We are confused'' when, from some unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is often ''confused'' by a severe cross-examination; a timid person is apt to be ''confused in entering a room full of strangers. ** We are confounded'' when our minds are overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually ''confounded at the discovery of his guilt. *::* Satan stood Awhile as mute, confounded what to say. – John Milton

    Synonyms

    * confuse * confound * disconcert * shame * humiliate * embarrass * See also

    Antonyms

    * embolden * reassure

    Derived terms

    * abashed * abashedly * abashedness * abashless * abashment

    Anagrams

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