Revolted vs Revolved - What's the difference?
revolted | revolved |
(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
(revolve)
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(label) To orbit a central point.
To turn on an axis.
*
(label) To recur in cycles.
(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :
As verbs the difference between revolted and revolved
is that revolted is past tense of revolt while revolved is past tense of revolve.revolted
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Verb
(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.
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revolved
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Verb
(head)revolve
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- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.