revolted a. 起来反抗的, 起义的, 反叛的
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.
- He says he is revolted by the wheeling and dealing that have been taking place in the corridors of power of the newly elected regional councils.
- But, as in 1381, the peasants revolted.
- But the hawks would have none of it: They revolted.
- Farmers, traditional supporters of Uno's party, also revolted against its moves to open Japan's agricultural market wider to imports.
- Mr. Frank also interjects absurdist phrases such as, "I'm sitting in a cafe in Paris, revolted by the roots of a chestnut tree," a reference to the novel "Nausea" by the late French author Jean-Paul Sartre.
- PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ The government declared a state of emergency, put troops on maximum alert and censored the news media Wednesday after soldiers revolted and demanded the ouster of Haitian leader Lt.
- When the streltsy next revolted, Peter had every unit annihilated, and did part of the job himself, swinging his own ax.
- Hungarians supporting democratic reforms revolted in 1956 against the Stalinist system. Soviet troops and tanks were sent in to crush the uprising, whose leader Imre Nagy was imprisoned and later executed.
- A small band of revolutionaries aided by Soviet troops revolted that year and proclaimed an independent socialist state in northern, or Outer Mongolia.
- In the end, the Romanian army revolted and defeated the Securitate.
- The Ionians had revolted in 499 and Athens supported them. Darius went to punish them but lost the battle of Marathon in 490.