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• (General American) enPR: rĭ-vōltʹ; IPA: /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈvəʊlt/, /ɹɪˈvɒlt/
• 韻: -əʊlt, -ɒlt
• ハイフネーション: re‧volt

動詞

revolt (third-person singular simple present revolts, present participle revolting, simple past and past participle revolted)

1. (intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.

   The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 18, column 1:

     Our diſcontented Counties doe reuolt

2. (transitive) To repel greatly.

   Your brother revolts me!

   • 1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, page 118:

     I shall be told, that this abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.

   • 1870, John Morley, Condorcet (published in the Fortnightly Review

     To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.

3. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.

   The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

4. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 567:

     The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt.

5. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
   • 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XII. On the Same [Tetrachordon].”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 57:

     And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free.

   • 1886, John Morley, The Life of Turgot:

     His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.

6. (card games) to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy

   Antonym: counterrevolt

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名詞

revolt (countable and uncountable, plural revolts)

1. An act of revolting.

   Synonyms: armed revolt, insurrection, rebellion

   — It's a revolt?
   — No, Sire, it's a revolution...

   • 2021 January 13, Steven Poole, “'Insurrection': how an old word for an old thing was Trumped”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:

     The first recorded use of “insurrection” in English, indeed, is in parliamentary papers describing the armed revolt led by Jack Cade in 1450, who marched on London to protest against the corruption of Henry VI’s government. […] Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.

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