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rĕ-vello, velli, vulsum or volsum, 3, v. a., to pluck or pull away, to pull or tear out, to tear off or away (freq. and class.).

  1. I. 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, id. 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.
  2. II. 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).