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:
Its hegemony lasted until about 1450 when, during a period of severe drought and cold, its vassals revolted and destroyed the city.
Ultimately the pro-division faction contrived to get the government to support its position and when the ' rebel' party revolted, the federal army unleashed counter-revolutionary terror.
And they could even have fled the land or revolted against the new regime if the changes were perceived to be too burdensome.
Most were appalled and revolted by such a prospect.
So too, men and women handle string bags every day, often admiringly and possessively, but they are revolted by placentas and other birth substances.
The author's conclusion that 'the clergy were revolted by any idea of collaborationism' (pp. 348-51) can thus be hardly reconciled with his evidence.
For example, contemporary intelligence reports noted that from 1917 the movement adopted a more radical agenda that revolted 'against the whole of the accepted system of industry'.
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.
