revolt
n. C / Un. a strong and often violent protest against people in power. It can also mean a feeling of great dislike or disgust toward something.
n. an act of armed resistance or rebellion against an established government or leader. Also refers to a sense of intense disgust or loathing toward a specific object or idea.
The citizens started a revolt against the unfair new taxes.
The military revolt was quickly suppressed by the government before it could spread to the capital city.
Historians often debate whether the peasant revolt was a spontaneous outburst of hunger or a calculated political move orchestrated by local nobility seeking to undermine the crown.
Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin revoltāre < revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus). Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ).
Countable when referring to a specific uprising; uncountable when referring to the general state of rebellion or a feeling of disgust.