0 past simple and past participle of revolt
1 If a large number of people revolt, they refuse to be controlled or ruled, and take action against authority, often violent action:
The people revolted against foreign rule and established their own government.
2 to make someone feel unpleasantly shocked or disgusted:
The world has been shocked and revolted by the scale of savagery and the crude brutality witnessed there.
They see indecent publications on the bookstalls, but do not buy them because they are not interested, or are revolted.
One would have thought his common sense would have revolted against so startling a proposition.
Most ordinary people are revolted by what those workers have to do.
The whole population was revolted at the system of government that had been imposed on them.
They revolted against it, and rightly, because minorities ought not to suffer.
The whole country is revolted by this crime against her family and against her whole community.
The adjustment of emotions and expectations to the realities of inherited social practice against which few revolted gave an unusual colouring to the affects of marital life.
