revolting

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English

Pronunciation

Verb

revolting

  1. present participle of revolt
    The peasants are revolting!

Noun

revolting (countable and uncountable, plural revoltings)

  1. revolution (The action of the verb to revolt)
    • 1837, The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
      Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

Adjective

revolting (comparative more revolting, superlative most revolting)

  1. repulsive, disgusting
    The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.

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