I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lead a revolt/rebellion/coup etc
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The rebellion was led by the King’s brother.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
peasant
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This was the best-known and recorded peasant revolt in Soviet history, yet its practical achievements were nil.
slave
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However, no significant slave revolt took place in the Confederacy as the war progressed.
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Some Union commanders even continued to uphold the antebellum policy of protecting resident slaveholders from slave revolts .
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With its ability to sound the call of slave revolt across the miles, it was simply too dangerous to exist.
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Not many years after these freed men invented their church organization, desperate militants inspired slave revolts .
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Even the accounts of the slave revolt are woven skillfully into the novel.
tax
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The tax revolt was showing itself.
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We have debated that issue endlessly since the tax revolt of 1978, and it has not solved our problems.
■ VERB
lead
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Only a matter of time until he leads a revolt of angels...
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He then led a revolt against Constantine in Gaul, which was defeated, and committed suicide at Marseilles in 310.
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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
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My father's father, a soldier in the Black Watch, had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Army forces crushed the revolt , forcing many to flee the country.
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At a word from Ghandi, India would have risen in revolt .
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Herrera knew that if his government failed to put down the revolt , it would spread to outlying areas.
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In 1880, a peasant revolt swept the country in protest at the tax on salt.
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Louverture headed the revolt of the slaves in the French colony of San Domingo.
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Mayhew's remarks represented the first American call for revolt against England.
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The Confederate government provided troops to suppress slave revolts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A politicisation of the thinking classes has taken place in the Thatcher years, echoing the revolt of intelligence in the 1930s.
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But as Lucy Re-Bartlett asserted, chastity was part of women's revolt against false social conditions.
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Instead townspeople speak of Maan's glorious role in sparking another great rebellion, the Arab revolt against the Ottomans.
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Only a matter of time until he leads a revolt of angels...
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The inevitable revolt shows only too plainly the helplessness of the seamen against the power of authority.
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There was open talk of revolt in sections of her party.
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When Wittikind and his warriors capitulated, the revolt began to collapse.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He kissed her full on the lips in a way that revolted her.
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I don't wear fur, I was so revolted by what I saw at a fox farm once.
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I opened the door and was instantly revolted by the smell.
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News reached the capital that two garrisons in the south had revolted against the government.
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Some of the Arab tribes were persuaded to revolt against Turkish rule.
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The community revolted at the proposal to move the bank downtown.
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When Napoleon won control of the region and attached it to Bavaria, the Tiroleans revolted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, ordinary people are beginning to revolt against this.
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I revolted by becoming a Sensitive person, which I am not.
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I think the huge scale massacre of pheasants is revolting.
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If the army revolted or went over to the opposition, all was lost.
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It may have been revolting but the effect was wonderful.
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Sadly, she never carries cash, so any hope of seeing her choose something unusually revolting for daughter-in-law Fergie soon faded.
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Such a scene does seem too revolting to record.
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Unless they are sadists, military pros are revolted by that.