annul, nullify, abolish, declare null and void, void, make void; quash, invalidate, vacate, disenact, cancel, set aside; veto, negate; reverse, change sides.
2. recant, retract, withdraw; take back, call back, back down, back off, back out of; go back on one's word, unsay, renege, back-pedal, eat one's words; renounce, forswear, abjure, relinquish, repudiate, disclaim, disavow, apostatize; countermand, counterorder, override, overrule; terminate, dissolve, put an end to, bring to an end, do away with, remove, sweep away; discard, disown, dismiss, revolt, v. 1. rebel, mutiny, rise up, rise up in arms, rise up against, mount the barricades, kick over the traces; riot, run riot, take to the streets; renounce allegiance, break away from, refuse to support; say no, resist, oppose, defy, contradict; protest, dissent, raise one's voice against, confront; violate, infringe, disobey, transgress; secede, desert, defect, bolt.
2. appall, horrify, shock, make the flesh creep; sicken, nauseate, make sick, disgust, turn the stomach; repulse, repel; offend, disturb, distress, go against the grain.
3. abhor, detest, loathe, abominate, execrate; feel horror, shudder at, shrink from, recoil, draw or pull back or away from, turn away from; dislike, disrelish. -n. 4. revolution, rebellion, insurrection, uprising, rising. See revolution (def. 1).
5. abhorrence, abomination, loathing, detestation, dislike, disaffection; aversion, dispprobation, revulsion, repulsion, revolting, adj. 1. offensive, repugnant, repulsive, repellent; obnoxious, objectionable, off-putting, gross, odious, rebarbative; abominable, execrable, loathsome, detestable, hateful; anathematic, abhorrent, despicable, base, contemptible; nauseating, nauseous, sickening, foul, vile; noisome, fulsome, mephitic, noxious; stinking, malodorous, reeking, fetid, rank; slimy, grimy, unclean, maggoty, reeky, ex-crementitious, Pathol, stercoraceous; SI. icky, SI. yukky, SI. ishy, SI. yecchy, SI. ecchy; beastly, dreadful, rotten, horrible, rancid, curdled, sour, bad.
2. crude, obscene, pornographic, filthy, dirty, vulgar; ugly, homely, plain, ugly as sin, not fit to be seen, homely enough to curdle milk; hideous, horrid, gorgonian, grisly, ghastly; misshapen, malformed, unsightly, frightful, monstrous, grotesque, grim.
3. rebellious, seditious, mutinous, insurrectionist; insubordinate, defiant, refractory; riotous, revolutionary, dissentient, recusant, ungovernable, revolution, n. 1. rebellion, revolt, insurrection, in-surgence, insurgency, uprising, rising, outbreak, mutiny; sedition, subversion, treason; overthrow, takeover, putsch, coup d'dtat; riot, anarchy, civil disorder, mob-law, street-fighting, fighting in the streets, turmoil, chaos; peasant revolt, jacquerie.
2. radical change, sea change, alteration, modification, metamorphosis, transformation; innovation, modernization; upset, upheaval, cataclysm.
3. rotation, single turn, whirl, round, reel, spin; full circle, full cycle, 360°; gyration, whirling, turning, revolving; orbit, circular movement, circumgyration, circumrotation.
4. circuit, cycle, round, ambit, run, lap. revolutionary, adj. 1. rebellious, insurgent, insurrectionary, seditious, factious; mutinous, insubordinate, disobedient; traitorous, treasonable, subversive; lawless, riotous, ungovernable, uncontrollable, out of control, unmanageable.
2. underground, counter-culture, counter-cultural, avant-garde; radical, drastic, thoroughgoing, fundamental, drastic, sweeping; progressive, newfangled,