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# revolt

«revolt» in Mova's school dictionary: **A fight or protest by many people against their rulers or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a revolt, revolts); verb (revolt, revolts, revolted, revolting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) A fight or protest by many people against their rulers or the people in charge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#m1)

2) (verb) To refuse to obey and rise up against the people in power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#m2)

3) (verb) To revolt someone is to make them feel disgusted or sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#m3)

4) (informal) Revolting (adjective) means really disgusting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons revolts happen against kings, empires or unfair taxes, like the Peasants' Revolt in England. In everyday talk revolting food or a revolting smell is disgusting. Phrases: rise in revolt, the Peasants' Revolt, be revolted by.

### examples

- Long ago, thousands of English peasants joined a revolt against unfair taxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#x1)
- The people revolted against the cruel king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#x2)
- The sailors revolted and took control of the ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#x3)
- The smell of the bins revolted me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#x4)
- This school dinner is revolting! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#x5)
- The children staged a small revolt when the trip was cancelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#x6)
- The horrible donkey-skin which covered her from head to toe revolted her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: revolted. Similar: rebellion, uprising, mutiny (on a ship or in an army). Revolting usually means disgusting, but it can mean taking part in a revolt.

### In the corpora

- [Enslaved people resisted in many ways, from revolts on ships to running away and building free communities.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/16/)
- [In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.243/)
- [Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, unto this day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.245/)
- [Then did Libnah revolt at the same time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.246/)
- [But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted, and gone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.160/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revolt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.