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To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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  1. n. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. 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.
  4. v. t. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
  5. v. t. To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
  6. n. The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
  7. n. A revolter.
  8. n. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
  9. v. make revolution
  10. v. fill with distaste
  11. v. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of