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revolting |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Revolting \Re*volt"ing\, a. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as revolting cruelty. -- {Re*volt"ing*ly}, adv From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Revolt \Re*volt"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revolted}; p. pr & vb n. {Revolting}.] [Cf. F. r['e]voller, It rivoltare See {Revolt}, n.] 1. To turn away to abandon or reject something specifically, to turn away or shrink, with abhorrence. But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free --Milton. HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. --J. Morley. 2. Hence to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. Our discontented counties do revolt. --Shak. Plant those that have revolted in the van. --Shak. 3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence to feel nausea; -- with at as the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: revolting adj : highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting}, {disgustful}, {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome}, {repellent}, {repellant}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
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