To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
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To make pale; to blanch.
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To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
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To strike against; to attack; to assail.
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To rage in excess of.
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To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach…
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A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…
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To make sick; to disease.
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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…
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Fertile. See Battel, a.
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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…
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Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.
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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
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To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…
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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…
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To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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Alt. of Insurgency
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A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.
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Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful…
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To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…
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To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…
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Driving back; able or tending to repel.
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Driving back; able or tending to repel.
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Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
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Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
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The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wh…
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The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wh…
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To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…
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A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.
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To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
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The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and…
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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
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of Rise
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To make sick; to disease.
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Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
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