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rebellion


rebellion/rɪˈbeljən/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
1. an organized attempt to change the government or leader of a country, using violence ⇨ coup, revolution:
  ▪ an armed rebellion
rebellion against
  ▪ a rebellion against the military regime
in rebellion
  ▪ The Bretons rose in rebellion against the King.
suppress/crush a rebellion (=use violence to stop it)

2. when someone opposes or fights against people in authority or ideas which they do not agree with:
  ▪ a rebellion by right-wing members of the party
rebellion against
  ▪ rebellion against traditional values
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COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + rebellion
armed rebellion
  ▪ This injustice has produced armed rebellion.
open rebellion (=rebellion that is clear and not hidden)
  ▪ Algiers was in open rebellion.
a military rebellion/an army rebellion
  ▪ Marlborough considered leading a military rebellion against the new king.
verbs
a rebellion breaks out (=starts)
  ▪ While he was away, a rebellion broke out in Aquitaine.
people rise in rebellion (=start rebelling)
  ▪ The peasants rose in rebellion.
lead a rebellion
  ▪ He led a peasant rebellion against Catherine the Great.
suppress/crush/put down a rebellion (=end it by force)
  ▪ Troops moved in to suppress the rebellion.
stage a rebellion (=organize it)
  ▪ Farmers who opposed the tax staged a rebellion that forced Washington to back down.
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THESAURUS
revolt/rebellion/uprising an attempt by a large group of people at revolution :
  ▪ a popular uprising (=involving ordinary people, not the army)
coup /kuː/ an occasion when a group of people, especially soldiers, suddenly take control of a country :
  ▪ a military coup

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lead a revolt/rebellion/coup etc
The rebellion was led by the King’s brother.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
armed
Martin Spegelj on a charge of armed rebellion.
jacobite
On 3 October 1745 Drummond was forced to suspend payments - allegedly because he supported the Jacobite rebellion.
military
The rally was held as the government managed to contain a week-long military rebellion that came dangerously close to succeeding.
NOUN
peasant
Mindful, perhaps, of the events of 1801 and 1825, he feared aristocratic recalcitrance more than a peasant rebellion.
One of those writs last used in peasant rebellions in the 1400s.
His master explanatory variable is market capitalism and his dependent variable is peasant rebellion.
VERB
crush
The last important resistance to modernization was crushed in the Satsuma rebellion of 1877.
In the summer he crushed Geoffrey's rebellion and compelled him to renounce his claim.
But instead helping to crush the rebellion, the teachers grinned, shrugged and told the stewards to relax.
fail
After failing in a rebellion in the hill country, they settled at Delphoi, where they had old family friendships.
lead
He led a rebellion by poorly organized indigenous people that lasted 10 days and resulted in at least 140 deaths.
put
My father's father, a soldier in the Black Watch, had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin.
rise
They were at once joined by the Bretons rising in rebellion against the King who had done much to limit their independence.
suppress
State military volunteers, with the aid of federal troops, moved in to suppress the rebellion.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crush a rebellion/uprising/revolt etc
put down a revolution/revolt/rebellion etc
My father's father, a soldier in the Black Watch, had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
A rebel army of political dissidents had staged a rebellion in December 1989.
an armed rebellion against the government
an unsuccessful attempt to mount a rebellion against British rule
Government officials feared a rebellion by right-wing members of the party.
In 1968, a student rebellion in Paris sparked off a nationwide general strike.
The rebellion spread quickly through the Western Provinces.
The rebellion started in Kilalla and spread quickly through the Western provinces.
The rebellion was crushed by an army assault in which over 200 people died.
The army was brought in to crush the rebellion.
The citizens of Kwangju rose in rebellion against the oppressive regime.
The Duke of Ormond led a military rebellion against the new king.
Threats of an armed rebellion caused tightened security measures across the country.
Troops were used to put down a rebellion and arrest hundreds of protestors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
And though she recognized that some of it was rebellion at the hours of inactivity, she could not ignore her bladder.
As it might be, the little kingdom which is Harry Kirkpatrick was subject to an insurrection, or rebellion.
If the government would not prevent such acts of rebellion, then the loyalists would take action themselves.
Marrying Changez would be, in her mind, a rebellion against rebellion, creative novelty itself.
There had been no quietly sprouting seeds of rebellion at Por Tanssie; of that he was sure.
Thus ideas and principles are taken over, redefined, and reapplied in order to structure and manage discontent and political rebellion.
Turning rebellion into money, eh?

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