revolting
Verb
  1. Present participle and gerund of revolt
    The feudal subjects decided to revolt.
Noun

revolting

  1. revolution; 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

  1. repulsive, disgusting
    The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC ↗:
      Why anyone should want such a revolting object had always been a mystery to me.
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