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