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uprising (root: uprise)

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Noun
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up=ris=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

uprisingn. 
  •  Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An insurrection; a popular revolt.  J. P. Peters.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

uprising, n. a rebellion or revolt.

THESAURUS

uprising

abruptness, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, anabasis, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, civil disorder, clamber, climb, climbing, coup d'etat, elevation, emeute, escalade, fountain, general uprising, gradient, gush, gyring up, in the ascendant, increase, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, jacquerie, jet, jump, leap, leaping, levee en masse, levitation, mount, mounting, mutiny, outbreak, peasant revolt, precipitousness, putsch, rampant, rearing, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, rise, rising, rising ground, rocketing up, saltation, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, shooting up, skyrocketing, soaring, spiraling, spout, spring, springing, spurt, steepness, surge, takeoff, taking off, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upwith, vault, vertical height, verticalness, zooming

ROGET THESAURUS

uprising

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.


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