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Tumult vs Revolt - What's the difference?

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Tumult is a related term of revolt.


As nouns the difference between tumult and revolt

is that tumult is tumult, ruckus, row while revolt is an act of revolt.

As a verb revolt is

to rebel, particularly against authority.

tumult

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
  • Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
  • the tumult of the elements
    the tumult of the spirits or passions
  • A riot or uprising.
  • Synonyms

    * uproar * ruckus

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
  • Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt. — Milton.
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    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
  • Noun