Dictionary entry

Revolt

Pronunciation: /rɪˈvəʊlt/

Pronunciation

/rɪˈvəʊlt/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) ပုန်ကန်သည်။ အုံကြွသည်။ တွန်းလှန်သည်။ ရွံရှာစေသည်။ အော်ဂလီဆန်သည်။

Definition

revolt /rÇ'vǝƱlt/ v ၁။ ~ (against sb/ sth) (က) ပုန္ကန္သည္။ revolting against a military dictatorship ❍ The people threatened to revolt. (ခ) အံုႂကြသည္။ ေသြလွန္သည္။ ဖီဆန္ သည္။ revolt against parental discipline ❍ Public opinion may revolt against such heavy casualties. ၂။ ရြံရွာေစ သည္။ ေအာ္ဂလီဆန္ေစသည္။ စက္ဆုပ္ေစသည္။ The violent scenes in the film revolted me. ❍ I was revolted by the smell of whisky on his breath. n (က) [U] ပုန္ကန္ျခင္း။ a period of open/ armed/ political revolt ❍ stir/ incite militant party members to revolt ❍ The people rose in revolt. (ခ) [C] ပုန္ကန္မႈ။ a Communistled revolt ❍ The army easily put down/ crushed the revolt. ❍ face a revolt amongst one's supporters. Compare REVOLUTION ၁

Examples

  1. [revolt against] : Several players revolted against their new coach.
  2. [revolt against] : In 1992 the Serbs revolted against separation from Yugoslavia.
  3. The Poles revolted several times in the 19th century.
  4. He was revolted by the stench of the stockyards.
  5. Just the thought of kissing him revolts me.