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Found 4 hits - Term: revolting, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
revolting \revolt"ing\, a.
   causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme
   repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. --
   revolt"ingly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
revolt"ingly 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
revolt \revolt"\, v. i. imp.  p. p. revolted; p. pr.  vb.
   n. revolting. cf. f. r'evoller, it. rivoltare. see
   revolt, n.
   1. to turn away; to abandon or reject something;
      specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
      1913 webster

            but this got by casting pearl to hogs,
            that bawl for freedom in their senseless mood,
            and still revolt when trith would set them free.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

            his clear intelligence revolted from the dominant
            sophisms of that time.                --j. morley.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

            our discontented counties do revolt.  --shak.
      1913 webster

            plant those that have revolted in the van. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. 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.
      1913 webster
see also:
revolted revolting revolt 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
revolting
     adj : highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
           disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
           disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
           "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" syn: disgusting,
            disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome,
            repellent, repellant, repelling, skanky, wicked,
            yucky
see also:
disgusting disgustful distasteful foul loathly loathsome 
repellent repellant repelling skanky wicked 
yucky 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
61 moby thesaurus words for "revolting":
   abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, base, beastly,
   below contempt, beneath contempt, contemptible, crude, despicable,
   detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, fetid,
   forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, grisly, gross,
   gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, icky,
   ignoble, inedible, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal,
   miasmic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious,
   objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid,
   rebarbative, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, rotten,
   sickening, stinking, terrible, unpleasant, vile, yucky





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