as in insurrection
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
soon the revolt had spread to every corner of the country
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as in to disgust
to cause to feel disgust
the jury appeared to be revolted by the grisly details of the murder
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as in to rebel
to rise up against established authority
the students practically revolted when the school cancelled the championship football game
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Recent Examples of revolt
Essence, 17 June 2025
The revolt by a large number of Labour MPs against benefit cuts imposed by Keir Starmer is an example.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
Since the dawn of strategic bombing doctrines in World War I, early airpower theorists were captivated by the idea that, if organized correctly, bombing campaigns could encourage populations to revolt against their own governments.
—Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
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Noun
Among these visual narratives is a meditation on the Aba Women’s Rebellion, a pivotal moment in West African anti-colonial history, when thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt against the policies imposed by British colonial administrators in southeastern Nigeria.
—Essence, 17 June 2025
The revolt by a large number of Labour MPs against benefit cuts imposed by Keir Starmer is an example.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
The locals nearly revolted against the Hollywood film crew who’d invaded the insular island community to shoot the picture.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
Since the dawn of strategic bombing doctrines in World War I, early airpower theorists were captivated by the idea that, if organized correctly, bombing campaigns could encourage populations to revolt against their own governments.
—Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revolt
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Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from the Capitol riot and insurrection, the people said.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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Once the security forces started killing and torturing enough protesters, the demonstrations, which did spiral into insurrections in 2017 and 2019, petered out.—
ERIC EDELMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2025
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Now people bothered by the insects have another reason to be disgusted by them.—
Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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The judge, though disgusted at her antics, still stands firm in his decision to give the prosecution access to those records because the reports about the divorce are still accessible to the jury.—
Ayan Artan,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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The passage of the 13th Amendment roughly six months later was the final legislation ensuring the freedom of all enslaved African Americans in the nation: both those in rebelling Confederate states and those belonging to the Union.—
Mackenzie Thomas,
The Washington Examiner,
16 June 2025
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But rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers rebelled and Newsom abandoned the effort.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
3 June 2025
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In the decades after the Tibetan uprising in 1959, tens of thousands of Tibetans braved frostbite and Himalayan avalanches to live in the proximity of the 14th Dalai Lama.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
2 July 2025
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The Gulf Arabs financed the counter-revolution against the popular Arab uprisings and worked to counter the influence of a stronger Iran.—
Dina Esfandiary,
Time,
1 July 2025
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After a disastrous trip to Mexico where Irina appeared repulsed by everything Zack did, the couple split and Zack went crawling back to Bliss.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
13 June 2025
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Clearly repulsed by the ravages of war, Lear kept the girl a secret, presumably went AWOL, and created new identities for them.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
13 May 2025
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Along the way, the exhausting voyage involved various mutinies and crew deaths, and upon reaching the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, Magellan’s mind and ambitions changed.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
18 May 2025
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But the mutiny underscored for Putin that the country’s current business leaders and high-level bureaucrats cannot be relied on at moments of regime crisis.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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Cucumbers are being recalled nationwide after a salmonella outbreak sickened 26 people and hospitalized nine across 15 states, including Tennessee.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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So far, people in two states have reported being sickened from the product, according to the FDA and the CDA. Minnesota (three people) New Jersey (one person) What pistachio cream is being recalled?—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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The final season picks up right where season 2 left off, with the deadly games resuming after Seong Gi-hun’s failed rebellion and Hwang Jun-ho continuing his search for the elusive island.—
Regina Kim,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Luckily, the late ’70s and the early ’80s helped reframe that perception, loosening the bounds of traditional beauty standards amid the era of punk rebellion.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
30 June 2025
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“Revolt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolt. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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