Definitions for revolts

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revolts re·volt

Spelling: [ri-vohlt]

IPA: /rɪˈvoʊlt/

Revolts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in revolts (elorstv).

Definitions for revolts

noun

1. the act of revolting; an insurrection or rebellion.
2. an expression or movement of spirited protest or dissent:

verb (used with object)

1. to affect with disgust or abhorrence:

verb (used without object)

1. to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny:
2. to turn away in mental rebellion, utter disgust, or abhorrence (usually followed by from):
3. to rebel in feeling (usually followed by against):
4. to feel horror or aversion (usually followed by at):

Origin of revolts

1540-50; (v.) Middle French revolter Italian rivoltare to turn around Vulgar Latin *revolvitāre, frequentative of Latin revolvere to roll back, unroll, revolve; (n

Examples for revolts

A problem far more pressing for the dynasty was the Taiping revolt, which ran from 1850 to 1864 and left tens of millions dead.

Injustice has always roused me to revolt, and injustice was certainly having its fling.

Mrs. Page could not get back of Harriet's revolt to its cause.

They see the ISIS uprising as part of a general Sunni revolt.

There was not a word of gratitude to this man, not a murmur of vengeance nor of revolt.

The ISI came to the CIA for assistance in fostering a revolt that had developed in the Afghan countryside against Communist rule.

The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity, and revolt.

Then Cruz rounded up some of the far-right members of the House GOP caucus and plotted a revolt.

The mind of Chief Inspector Heat was inaccessible to ideas of revolt.

Remarkably, Americans have not risen in revolt against this gaping inequality.