revolting

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of revolt
    The feudal subjects decided to revolt.

noun

  1. revolution; revolt
    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. 1837, The American Biblical Repository, volume 9, page 316

adj

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

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