Synonyms:
rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising
Meaning: organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
Usage examples
Was it an insurrection?
It, therefore, assumed that the withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union was an insurrection.
Lord Hussey was found guilty, as an accomplice in the insurrection of Lincolnshire, and was executed at Lincoln.
Then Trotzky, that telegrams had been sent to the front announcing the victorious insurrection, but no reply had come.
A whole crop of new appeals against insurrection had blossomed out on the walls during the night--to the peasants, to the soldiers at the front, to the workmen of Petrograd.
How far they had soared, these Bolsheviki, from a despised and hunted sect less than four months ago, to this supreme place, the helm of great Russia in full tide of insurrection!
He fixed English garrisons in their most considerable towns, and placed over them an English governor, who might watch all their motions, and suppress any insurrection on its first appearance.
On the 25th of January, 1500, the insurrection broke out; and two months later Ludovic Sforza had once more become master of Milaness, where the French possessed nothing but the castle of Milan.
And when he had made his escape to Jerusalem, he provoked the multitude, which hated him before, to make an insurrection against him, and this on account of the greatness of the calamity that he was under.
Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire, is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as "rebels," as if they had revolted against a master, and a war of subjugation is begun.