INSURGENCE Synonyms

• open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

• engage in a mutiny against an authority

• refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

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

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

• make revolution

• fill with distaste

• cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of

• a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

• the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

• a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

• a public act of violence by an unruly mob

• a state of disorder involving group violence

• a joke that seems extremely funny

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

• take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot

• engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

• advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

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

• sloping upward

• coming to maturity

• newly come into prominence

• an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

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

• an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict