Synonyms of the word rebellion


REBELLIONBATTLE - CONFLICT - INSURRECTION - RESISTANCE - REVOLT - RISING - STRUGGLE - UPRISING

rebellion

  • n. (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
  • n. (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
  • n. (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with…

battle

  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
  • n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
  • n. A struggle; a contest.
  • n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
  • n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
  • v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
  • v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

conflict

  • n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

insurrection

  • n. A violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government or other authority;…

resistance

  • n. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
  • n. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
  • n. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
  • n. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance…

revolt

  • v. To rebel, particularly against authority.
  • v. To repel greatly.
  • v. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
  • v. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
  • v. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  • n. an act of revolt.

rising

  • v. present participle of rise.
  • n. Rebellion.
  • n. The act of something that rises.
  • n. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
  • adj. Going up.
  • prep. (US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

uprising

  • n. A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection.
  • v. present participle of uprise.

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