revolt
US: /ɹiˈvoʊɫt/, /ɹɪˈvoʊɫt/
UK: /ɹɪvˈəʊlt/
UK: /ɹɪvˈəʊlt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
revolt /ri'voult/
- danh từ
- cuộc nổi dậy, cuộc khởi nghĩa, cuộc nổi loạn
- to rise in revolt against...: nổi lên chống lại...
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) sự ghê tởm
- cuộc nổi dậy, cuộc khởi nghĩa, cuộc nổi loạn
- nội động từ
- nổi dậy chống lại, khởi nghĩa, nổi loạn, làm loạn
- people revolted against their wicked rulers: nhân dân nổi lên chống lại bọn cầm quyền độc ác
- ghê tởm
- his conscience revolts at the crime: tội ác đó làm cho lương tâm anh ta ghê tởm
- nổi dậy chống lại, khởi nghĩa, nổi loạn, làm loạn
- ngoại động từ
- làm ghê tởm, làm chán ghét
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [C, U] a protest against authority, especially that of a government, often involving violence; the action of protesting against authority: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 + to lead / stage a revolt + The army quickly crushed the revolt. + the biggest back-bench revolt this government has ever seen + Attempts to negotiate peace ended in armed revolt. + (formal) The people rose in revolt.
+ verb
1 [V] ~ (against sb/sth) to take violent action against the people in power: Finally the people revolted against the military dictatorship. + The peasants threatened to revolt.
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2 [V] ~ (against sth) to behave in a way that is the opposite of what sb expects of you, especially in protest: Teenagers often revolt against parental discipline.
3 [VN] to make you feel horror or disgust: All the violence in the movie revolted me. + The way he ate his food revolted me.
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Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 rebellion, revolution, uprising, mutiny, insurrection, coup d'état, putsch, take-over:
The council ordered the secret police to suppress the revolt.
v.
2 rebel, rise up, mutiny; protest, dissent:
After years of oppression, the people revolted and deposed their leaders.
3 repel, offend, disgust, shock, horrify, repulse, nauseate, sicken:
I was revolted by the poverty and sickness I saw in that country.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
great
The Great Revolt of 1381 may have been caused by attempts to keep wages down.
| full-scale, general, large-scale, mass, popular, serious, widespread
There was a general revolt against the leadership at the party congress.
| open
Parliament came out in open revolt against the president.
| armed | peasant/peasant's, shareholder's, student, etc.
VERB + REVOLT
cause, prompt, provoke, stir up | lead
a student-led revolt
| stage | control, crush, deal with, put down, quash, suppress
The revolt was suppressed with total ruthlessness.
REVOLT + VERB
break out
Revolt broke out when the government decided to raise the price of bread.
| spread | overthrow sb/sth
The regime was overthrown by a popular revolt.
PREP.
in ~
The farmers rose in revolt.
| ~ against
the revolt against the poll tax in Britain
| ~ by
a revolt by backbenchers
| ~ over
the farmers' revolt over imported meat
| ~ within
revolt within the party
Concise English dictionary
revolts|revolted|revoltingrɪ'vəʊlt
noun
+organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
verb
+make revolution
+fill with distaste
+cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
