Revolt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REVOLT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to rise up against authority
• take violent action against an established government or ruler; rebel
• refuse to acknowledge someone or something as having authority
• having rebelled
• cause to feel disgust
• To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
• To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
• make revolution
• fill with distaste
• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
• rise in rebellion
• feel disgust
NOUN:
• an attempt to end the authority of a person or body by rebelling
• a refusal to continue to obey or conform
• uprising against authority
• To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
• Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
• To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
• The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
• A revolter.
• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

Words related to REVOLT

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Words that contain REVOLT

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How to use REVOLT in a sentence

• It is significant because it reveals so clearly the sources of that revolt.
• It is they, denied the opportunity to rise from the working class, who preach revolt to the working class.
• The Christian saint who would allow the nails of his fingers to grow through the palms of his clasped hands would excite, not our admiration, but our revolt.
• Darius, seeing how formidable the revolt was, determined to act with caution.
• Surging through the masses like a mighty tide was the spirit of revolt, manifesting itself much as it had done nine years before.
• Depression begins when we have to admit that the revolt led to nothing but a great many bad pictures and a little thin sentiment.
• The Welsh strengthened him with their forces, and Cheshire joined in the revolt.
• But the Moors who dwelt in Byzacium and in Numidia turned to revolt for no good reason, and they decided to break the treaty and to rise suddenly against the Romans.
• Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt.
• Adams, particularly, I could have no feelings which would revolt at being placed in a secondary station to him.
• Only within the fortnight had he aspired to hold office, since his party had for years lacked the fighting chance which the revolt against Shelby created.
• The revolt now became general, and the island was delivered over to the murderous fury of men maddened by oppression, cruelty, and insult.
• The people of Germany were ripe for revolt when the tidings of the French revolution came suddenly as a flash along the electric wire.
• All were in revolt against the grammar of classical music.
• The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain.
• The revolt is in myself, against something sordid and horrible which I will not take into my life.
• There was a revolt against it, for the hero thus engendered had qualities which the national sense of humor could not endure in silence.
• His heart was full of bitterness, contempt, revolt.
• Even in the worst times of her illness, Nelly had shewn signs of distress and revolt.
• The death of Solomon was the signal for a revolt in Palestine itself.
• But the vanquished population was deprived of the means for revolt.
• In short, I do not think that the British public fully realised the danger threatened by any serious and extensive revolt of the Dutch colonists.
• Many leaders of the revolt were condemned and shot, displaying in most cases a total absence of fortitude.
• But the next moment his expression changed to one of intense revolt and repugnance, as if he would have thrust the coveted prize from him.

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