REBELLION


Meaning of REBELLION in English

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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