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Revolt vs Insurgent - What's the difference?

revolt | insurgent |

As nouns the difference between revolt and insurgent

is that revolt is an act of revolt while insurgent is one of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.

As a verb revolt

is to rebel, particularly against authority.

As an adjective insurgent is

rebellious, opposing authority.

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

    • insurgent

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Rebellious, opposing authority.
  • * Motley
    • The insurgent provinces.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency

    • Anagrams

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