Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.
synonyms: rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising.
Roget 742:
disobedience,
insubordination,
contumacy;
infraction,
infringement;
violation,
noncompliance;
nonobservance
etc.
773.
revolt,
rebellion,
mutiny,
outbreak,
rising,
uprising,
insurrection,
emeute [Fr.];
riot,
tumult
etc.
(disorder)
59;
strike
etc.
(resistance)
719;
barring out;
defiance
etc.
715.
mutinousness
etc.
adj.;
mutineering†;
sedition,
treason;
high treason,
petty treason,
misprision of treason;
premunire [Lat.];
lese majeste [Fr.];
violation of law
etc.
964;
defection,
secession.
insurgent,
mutineer,
rebel,
revolter,
revolutionary,
rioter,
traitor,
quisling,
carbonaro†,
sansculottes [Fr.],
red republican,
bonnet rouge,
communist,
Fenian,
frondeur;
seceder,
secessionist,
runagate,
renegade,
brawler,
anarchist,
demagogue;
Spartacus,
Masaniello,
Wat Tyler,
Jack Cade;
ringleader.
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Roget 719:
resistance,
stand,
front,
oppugnation†;
oppugnancy†;
opposition
etc.
708;
renitence†,
renitency;
reluctation†,
recalcitration†;
kicking
etc.
v..
repulse,
rebuff.
insurrection
etc.
(disobedience)
742;
strike;
turn out,
lock out,
barring out;
levee en masse [Fr.],
Jacquerie;
riot
etc.
(disorder)
59.
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Dutch: oproer, opstand, rebellie, revolte
Polish: bunt, rewolta