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Common collocations with revolt in American Collocation

revolt noun countable/uncountable

US /rɪˈvoʊlt/

unsuccessful

abortive
attempted
unsuccessful

The revolt was unsuccessful and their last attempt at regaining any control.

mass

mass
popular

Presumably they would stage a mass revolt if there was any suggestion that major rigging of elections had taken place.

armed or bloody

armed
bloody

By this time, the term ‘revolution’ had come to mean a bloody revolt.

stop a revolt

crush
put down
quell
repress
suppress

He commanded the French expedition that helped quell an anti-Bourbon revolt in Spain in 1823.

start a revolt

provoke
spark
trigger

The Dissolution provoked an armed revolt which nearly cost Henry his throne.

organize or lead a revolt

foment
lead
organize
stage

Traveling from church to church allowed Turner to gather the knowledge he needed to organize his revolt.