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.

Verb

(en verb)

To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.

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To withstand the actions of.

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To oppose.

(obsolete) To be distasteful to.

* 1608 , , II. iii. 29:

These cates resist me,