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esurrect, re-establish, resume, reopen, revitalize, breathe
life into, reinvigorate, rejuvenate: Perhaps we ought to revive
the practice of putting hooligans, vandals, and delinquents into
stocks in the market square.
revoke v. cancel, deny, invalidate, annul, declare null and void,
void, nullify, negate, repudiate, renounce, rescind, repeal,
recall, recant, quash, veto, set aside, abrogate, abolish,
withdraw, take back, retract: He warned that if they refused to
comply with local authority rulings he had the power to revoke
their licence.
revolt n. 1 rebellion, revolution, uprising, mutiny, insurrection,
coup d'‚tat, 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.
revolting adj. disgusting, sickening, nauseating, nauseous,
stomach-turning, stomach-churning, vomit-provoking, sick-making,
foul, loathsome, abhorrent, horrid, horrible, nasty, vile,
obnoxious, repulsive, appalling, abominable, repellent,
offensive, objectionable, off-putting, beastly, gross, rotten,
rancid, inedible, disagreeable, unpleasant, Slang icky, yucky:
Rick served up some revolting mess for dinner and then took
offence when we didn't eat it.
revolution
n. 1 mutiny, revolt, rebellion, coup (d'‚tat), uprising,
insurgency, insurrection, putsch, take-over, overthrow: If the
government fails to ensure that the people have food, there will
be a revolution. 2 upheaval, cataclysm, transformation, (drastic
or radical or major) change, sea change, metamorphosis: Recent
successes of capitalism have sparked a revolution in the
political philosophies of communist nations. 3 rotation, turn,
orbit, circuit, spin, lap, round, cycle, circle, gyration;
wheel, whirl, pirouette: At each revolution of the gear (A ) ,
the ratchet (B ) moves one notch. The rapid revolutions of the
ice-skater dissolved her into a blur of colour.