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How to pronounce rebellion

IPA transcription: [ɹɪ'bɛljən]

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Noun

  • organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

  • refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

    “each generation must have its own rebellion”

    “his body was in rebellion against fatigue”

Usage examples

  • Dazaifu ordered Koremune Shigehisa to stop the rebellion and to destroy the Abiru clan.
  • The Klingons stop the Cardassian rebellion and occupy their homeworld, Cardassia Prime.
  • The chronicles do not elucidate the motives for the rebellion.
  • The aftermath of Kato's rebellion was disastrous.
  • He was arrested and charged with complicity in the rebellion.
  • But Yazdegerd's policy created, rather than forestalled, a Christian rebellion in Armenia.
  • He also served during Pontiac's Rebellion.
  • Stuart and Israel Green put down the rebellion.
  • Here he helped to suppress a local rebellion against the Maharaja, Gulab Singh.
  • After the rebellion, Go-Shirakawa ruled Japan by himself.