(mutinies, ~ing, mutinied)
1.
A ~ is a refusal by people, usually soldiers or sailors, to continue obeying a person in authority.
A series of coup attempts and mutinies within the armed forces destabilized the regime...
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2.
If a group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, ~, they refuse to continue obeying a person in authority.
Units stationed around the capital mutinied because they had received no pay for nine months...
Sailors at a naval base had mutinied against their officers.
VERB: V, V against n