Lewis Short
(verb) : rĕ-vello, velli, vulsum or volsum, 3
* To pluck or pull away, to pull or tear out, to tear off or away (freq. and class.).
* Lit.: tela de corpore,Cic. Pis. 11, 25: nascentis equi de fronte revolsus amor,Verg. A. 4, 515: titulum de fronte,Ov. P. 4, 13, 7: telum altā ab radice,Verg. A. 12, 787: caput a cervice,id. G. 4, 523; cf.: cornu a fronte,Ov. M. 9, 86: saxum e monte,id. ib. 12, 341: partem e monte,id. ib. 13, 882: a silvis silvas et ab arvis arva,id. ib. 8, 584: ab aliquo morte revelli,to be torn away,id. ib. 4, 152: scuta manibus,Caes. B. G. 1, 52: axem temone,Ov. M. 2, 316; cf.: sudem osse,id. ib. 12, 300: arborem manibus tellure,id. R. Am. 87: quos Sidoniā urbe,to tear away, remove,Verg. A. 4, 545: puerum,Ov. F. 6, 515: solio regem,Sil. 16, 273: herbas radice,with the root,Ov. M. 7, 226; so, too, annosam pinum solido trunco,id. ib. 12, 356: illam crucem, quae fixa est ad portum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 26: tabulam,id. ib. 2, 2, 46, § 112: Gorgonis os pulcherrimum revellit atque abstulit,id. ib. 2, 4, 56, § 124: gradus,id. Pis. 10, 23: saepta,id. Phil. 5, 4, 9: claustra,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 52; Liv. 5, 21: janua, quā effractā et revolsā, tota pateret provincia,Cic. Mur. 15, 33: vincula,id. Caecin. 25, 70: paene fores templi,Suet. Calig. 6: templa,Luc. 3, 115: revulsis venis,opened,Sen. Oedip. 978: scuta manibus,Caes. B. G. 1, 52: pellem,Col. 2, 3, 1: stipites revincti, ne revelli possent,Caes. B. G. 7, 73: proximos agri terminos,to tear away, remove,Hor. C. 2, 18, 24: signa (when an army decamps),Luc. 7, 77; Sil. 12, 733: curvo dente humum,to tear up,Ov. Am. 3, 10, 14; cf.: majorum sepulcra,Auct. Her. 4, 8, 12. — Poet.: cinerem manesque,to disturb, violate,Verg. A. 4, 427.
* Trop., to tear away, send away, etc.: cujus totus consulatus est ex omni monumentorum memoriā revulsus,Cic. Phil. 13, 12, 26: injurias honorificis verbis,id. Att. 5, 20, 11: alicui avias veteres,prejudices,Pers. 5, 92: falsorum persuasionem,Sen. Ep. 95, 33: penitus de stirpe imperium,Claud. in Rufin. 2, 207: oscula fida,Stat. S. 3, 2, 57 (with dissipat amplexus).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary