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insurrection
The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
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  1. The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
  2. A rising up against established authority; rebellion; revolt
revolt
A rising up against the government; rebellion; insurrection
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  1. A rising up against the government; rebellion; insurrection
  2. Any refusal to submit to or accept authority, custom, etc.
  3. The state of a person or persons in rebellion:
resistance
Lack of normal response to a biologically active compound such as a hormone:
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  1. Lack of normal response to a biologically active compound such as a hormone:
  2. (Biology) Ability (of an organism, tissue, or cell) to withstand a destructive agent or condition such as a chemical compound, a disease agent, or an environmental stressor:
  3. Thermal resistance.
insurgence
The action or an instance of rebellion; an insurrection.
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  1. The action or an instance of rebellion; an insurrection.
  2. A rising in revolt; uprising; insurrection
  3. An uprising or rebellion; an insurrection
insurgency
The quality, state, or fact of being insurgent
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  1. The quality, state, or fact of being insurgent
  2. Rebellion; revolt; the state of being insurgent
  3. An instance of rebellion; an insurgence.
insurrection
The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
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  1. The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
  2. A rising up against established authority; rebellion; revolt
rebellion
Open, armed, and organized resistance to a constituted government.
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  1. Open, armed, and organized resistance to a constituted government.
  2. Defiance toward an authority or established convention:
  3. (Countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
revolt
Any refusal to submit to or accept authority, custom, etc.
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  1. Any refusal to submit to or accept authority, custom, etc.
  2. An uprising, especially against state authority; a rebellion.
  3. A rising up against the government; rebellion; insurrection
revolution
Overthrow of a government, form of government, or social system by those governed and usually by forceful means, with another government or system taking its place
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  1. Overthrow of a government, form of government, or social system by those governed and usually by forceful means, with another government or system taking its place
  2. Orbital motion about a point, especially as distinguished from axial rotation:
  3. A sudden or momentous change in a situation:
sedition
Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
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  1. Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state.
  2. The stirring up of discontent, resistance, or rebellion against the government in power
  3. (Archaic) Revolt or rebellion
uprising
The act or an instance of rising or rising up.
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  1. The act or an instance of rising or rising up.
  2. A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection.
  3. The action of rising up; specif., an outbreak against a government; revolt
rebel
To resist authority or convention
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  1. To resist authority or convention
  2. To be a rebel against the established government of one's country
  3. To resist or defy an authority or a generally accepted convention.
revolt
To oppose or refuse to accept something:
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  1. To oppose or refuse to accept something:
  2. To refuse to submit to authority, custom, etc.; rebel; mutiny
  3. To rise up against the government
rise
To cause to rise, as birds from cover or a fish to the surface of the water
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  1. To cause to rise, as birds from cover or a fish to the surface of the water
  2. To puff up or become larger; swell up:
  3. To cause to rise:
Find another word for mutiny. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mutiny, like: insurrection, revolt, resistance, revolution, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, revolution and sedition.

Sentence Examples

  • A mutiny was the consequence.

  • In an instant the mutiny became a revolution.

  • This policy did not allay the discontent of the Macedonian army, and when Alexander in the summer of 324 moved to the cooler region of Media, an actual mutiny of the Macedonians broke out on the way at Opis on the Tigris.

  • During the Mutiny of 1857, Allahabad became the scene of one of the most serious outbreaks and massacres which occurred in the North-Western Provinces.

  • The Strelitz were gradually drawn to the western frontier of Russia, and in 1698 they rose in mutiny for the last time.

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