as in uprisings
open fighting against authority (as one's own government)
soon the revolt had spread to every corner of the country
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as in disgusts
to cause to feel disgust
the jury appeared to be revolted by the grisly details of the murder
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as in rebels
to rise up against established authority
the students practically revolted when the school cancelled the championship football game
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Recent Examples of revolts
Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
One can scarcely draw solace from the trajectories of those recent revolts.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Soliman worked as a freelance journalist covering pro-democracy revolts in Egypt and neighboring Libya.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The Russian Empire would also crush revolts organized by the Crimean Tatars, which saw Russia gain control over the peninsula.
—Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
So far, the release sparked one of the most intense user revolts in ChatGPT's history, forcing CEO Sam Altman to make an unusual public apology and reverse key decisions.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
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Peasant revolts have been a thing right alongside revolutionary history the entire time.
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This summer alone has seen youth uprisings in Nepal, Angola, and Indonesia, to say nothing of ongoing youth mobilization worldwide for a free Palestine.—
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The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.—
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Wars that lasted a hundred years, wars between Lutherans and Catholics and between Christians and Muslims, the siege of Constantinople, Mitteleuropa’s peasant rebellions, the lowland’s revolt against Spain, England’s conquest of Ireland.—
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Police would kill many more people in the rebellions that occasionally broke out afterwards, in Miami and Los Angeles and elsewhere.—
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The president can also legally invoke the military under the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be deployed in order to curb insurrections.—
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“Revolts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolts. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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