[ adj ] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust <adj.all> a disgusting smelldistasteful language a loathsome disease the idea of eating meat is repellent to me revolting food a wicked stench
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.
Revolting \Re*volt"ing\, a. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- {Re*volt"ing*ly}, adv.
Early grave robbers, peasants revolting against the pharaohs and generations of stone thieves left few clues to the alleged conspiracy intact.
This comes at a time when residents of many of the nation's most affluent suburban areas are revolting against growth.
He found a Chinese doctor who seemed to have the powers of a fortune teller. 'He told me amazingly accurate things about my medical history, gave me a revolting tasting herbal potion, and two days later my condition started clearing up.
His death increased the toll to 537 Palestinians killed since Arabs started revolting against Israeli occupation in December 1987. Sixy-eight have been killed as collaborators by fellow Arabs. Twenty-three Israelis also have died.
The rupture followed months of efforts pushed by Pope John Paul II to work out a reconciliation with Lefebvre, suspended since 1976 from his priestly functions for revolting against the church reforms.
The idea is revolting to some residents of one small town where a French-run slaughterhouse has just begun operations.
All year, these oinks make hair-gel or catfood or something else revolting. 'The only glamour in their lives is when they come to London to visit the agency to see what they are getting for these enormous sums of money that the agency is charging them.
The French are revolting.
There was an old man hobbling behind the girl who wanted to show me something revolting on the end of the stump of his arm.