Rebelled vs Revolted - What's the difference?
rebelled | revolted |
(rebel)
To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
(revolt)
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
As verbs the difference between rebelled and revolted
is that rebelled is past tense of rebel while revolted is past tense of revolt.rebelled
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(head)rebel
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(wikipedia rebel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rebelle, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) rebeller, from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
(rebell)Synonyms
* defyAntonyms
* obey * submitrevolted
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(head)revolt
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- 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.
