revolt

Definitions

re- (back/against) + volvere (turn) = 'to turn back against.' To revolt is to turn around and face down the authority you once obeyed. The 'disgust' sense (it revolts me) comes from the same turning — your stomach turns, you turn away in repulsion.

Common Collocations

• 1.revolt against反抗……
• 2.popular revolt民众起义
• 3.armed revolt武装叛乱
• 4.open revolt公开反叛

Example Sentences

• 1.

  The peasants revolted against the cruel landowners.

• 2.

  A popular revolt finally toppled the dictator.

• 3.

  The smell of rotten meat revolted everyone in the room.

Easily Confused

revolt vs revolution — a revolt is the act of rising up (it may fail and change nothing); a revolution succeeds in overturning the existing order. Every revolution starts as a revolt, but not every revolt becomes a revolution.