"revolting" in the verb sense
1. revolt
make revolution
"The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
2. disgust, gross out, revolt, repel
fill with distaste
"This spoilt food disgusts me"
3. disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up
cause aversion in offend the moral sense of
"The pornographic pictures sickened us"
"revolting" in the adjective sense
1. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
highly offensive arousing aversion or disgust
"a disgusting smell"
"distasteful language"
"a loathsome disease"
"the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"
"revolting food"
"a wicked stench"
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