revolution(POLITICS)

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Taking action against people in power
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angry young man
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anti-state
bring
insurgency
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level up
mutineer
mutinous
red flag
revolt
revolution
revolutionarily
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subversively
subversiveness
topple
troublemaker
ungovernable

uprising | American Dictionary

uprising
noun[ C ]
us/ˈʌpˌrɑɪ·zɪŋ/
an act of opposition by many people, sometimes using violence, against those who are in power

Examples of uprising

uprising
In continental rift settings, the emplacement of such large volumes of felsic melts requires a huge amount of mafic magma derived from uprising asthenosphere.
Diverging opinions on who started the war - locals or strangers, leaders or commoners - are an intriguing aspect of later accounts of the uprising.
It would take a year before the uprising was possible, as this delay was necessary for preparatory work.
Nowhere has that societal pressure been more evident than in the phenomenon of intifadat al-khubz (bread uprisings).
Some recent works dispute the key role of communal cotton in precipitating the uprising.
The uprising tore apart existing economic and political networks.
What did happen was the circulation of rumours regarding a possible second uprising echoing 1857.
The national organization had been evading similar uprisings in the profession for some time.
Judging from the evidence of the rebel confessions, it was a central reason for the uprising of 1795.
But none of them joined in the uprising.
They ran the risk of sparking off a concatenation of uprisings which could elicit an authoritarian response from both domestic and international authorities.
As shown by the protests articulated during various unsuccessful uprisings, this kind of government was not accepted by the urban population.
So they tried, in describing the uprising, to stress the consolidation aspect, concentrating on the prospects for the workers' councils.
Discontent did not, however, necessarily mean the basis for a mass uprising, let alone a successful revolution.
The small scale uprisings were transformed into a largescale war because of massive external intervention.
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