REVOLT


Meaning of REVOLT in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

lead a revolt/rebellion/coup etc

The rebellion was led by the King’s brother.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

peasant

This was the best-known and recorded peasant revolt in Soviet history, yet its practical achievements were nil.

slave

However, no significant slave revolt took place in the Confederacy as the war progressed.

Some Union commanders even continued to uphold the antebellum policy of protecting resident slaveholders from slave revolts .

With its ability to sound the call of slave revolt across the miles, it was simply too dangerous to exist.

Not many years after these freed men invented their church organization, desperate militants inspired slave revolts .

Even the accounts of the slave revolt are woven skillfully into the novel.

tax

The tax revolt was showing itself.

We have debated that issue endlessly since the tax revolt of 1978, and it has not solved our problems.

■ VERB

lead

Only a matter of time until he leads a revolt of angels...

He then led a revolt against Constantine in Gaul, which was defeated, and committed suicide at Marseilles in 310.

Mrs Thatcher was a natural to lead the revolt of the petite-bourgeoisie.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

crush a rebellion/uprising/revolt etc

put down a revolution/revolt/rebellion etc

My father's father, a soldier in the Black Watch, had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Army forces crushed the revolt , forcing many to flee the country.

At a word from Ghandi, India would have risen in revolt .

Herrera knew that if his government failed to put down the revolt , it would spread to outlying areas.

In 1880, a peasant revolt swept the country in protest at the tax on salt.

Louverture headed the revolt of the slaves in the French colony of San Domingo.

Mayhew's remarks represented the first American call for revolt against England.

The Confederate government provided troops to suppress slave revolts.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A politicisation of the thinking classes has taken place in the Thatcher years, echoing the revolt of intelligence in the 1930s.

But as Lucy Re-Bartlett asserted, chastity was part of women's revolt against false social conditions.

Instead townspeople speak of Maan's glorious role in sparking another great rebellion, the Arab revolt against the Ottomans.

Only a matter of time until he leads a revolt of angels...

The inevitable revolt shows only too plainly the helplessness of the seamen against the power of authority.

There was open talk of revolt in sections of her party.

When Wittikind and his warriors capitulated, the revolt began to collapse.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He kissed her full on the lips in a way that revolted her.

I don't wear fur, I was so revolted by what I saw at a fox farm once.

I opened the door and was instantly revolted by the smell.

News reached the capital that two garrisons in the south had revolted against the government.

Some of the Arab tribes were persuaded to revolt against Turkish rule.

The community revolted at the proposal to move the bank downtown.

When Napoleon won control of the region and attached it to Bavaria, the Tiroleans revolted.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

However, ordinary people are beginning to revolt against this.

I revolted by becoming a Sensitive person, which I am not.

I think the huge scale massacre of pheasants is revolting.

If the army revolted or went over to the opposition, all was lost.

It may have been revolting but the effect was wonderful.

Sadly, she never carries cash, so any hope of seeing her choose something unusually revolting for daughter-in-law Fergie soon faded.

Such a scene does seem too revolting to record.

Unless they are sadists, military pros are revolted by that.

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