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revolt
noun as in uprising
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verb as in rebel, rise up against
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Example Sentences
This year, Starmer tried to push through modest reforms to welfare that would slow the growth in spending over the next few years, but backtracked after a series of revolts from his own party.
“Anemone” allows Day-Lewis to be volcanic when Ray launches into a disturbing, ultimately revolting monologue about a recent run-in with a pedophiliac priest from childhood.
Other incidents, which police described as "revolting and appalling", involved liquid being thrown towards a school and over a car.
"It is particularly revolting to experience our family's tragedy being turned into entertainment for the masses and to know that people are using our family's trauma for their own personal gain."
Special Order 40 is still in effect 46 years later and has never faced a significant internal or external revolt.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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