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Revolt vs Disgusting - What's the difference?

revolt | disgusting |

As verbs the difference between revolt and disgusting

is that revolt is to rebel, particularly against authority while disgusting is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun revolt

is an act of revolt.

As an adjective disgusting is

causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

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

    • disgusting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
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    • Synonyms

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    Verb

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