Revolt vs Rebolt - What's the difference?
revolt | rebolt |
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
In lang=en terms the difference between revolt and rebolt
is that revolt is to be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at while rebolt is to bolt again.As verbs the difference between revolt and rebolt
is that revolt is to rebel, particularly against authority while rebolt is to bolt again.As a noun revolt
is an act of revolt.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.