Vocabulary
Rebel
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or leader.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- If only the prime minister had not followed up with a thinly veiled diatribe against `fitnas` who `riot and vandalise` to `defame and curse and rebel against the state`.
- As a young man, Mujica played a prominent part in the Tupamaro insurgency that flourished in the `60s and `70s named, like Tupac Shakur, after Tupac Amaru II, a Peruvian rebel executed in the 18th century by Spanish colonialists.
- Yet then rebel leader and now interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who traded in his jihadi fatigues for sharp suits, promised the world that there would be no place for such bloodshed in the new Syria.
- But even in Myanmar the military is on the defensive, continuing to lose ground to rebel forces.
- But even in Myanmar the military is on the defensive, continuing to lose ground to rebel forces.
Synonyms
revolt, mutiny, riot, rise up, rise up in arms, take up arms, stage/mount a rebellion
Curator example
“the Earl of Pembroke subsequently rebelled against Henry III”
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