revolt

Meanings

Verb

• To rebel, particularly against authority.
• To repel greatly.
• To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
• To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
• To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

Noun

• An act of revolt.

Origin

• Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (through its past participle revolūtus).