When there is an uprising, a group of people start fighting against the people who are in power in their country, because they want to bring about a political change.
...a popular uprising against the authoritarian government. [+ against]
Isolated attacks in the north-east of the country have now turned into a full-scaleuprising.
Synonyms: rebellion, rising, revolution, outbreak More Synonyms of uprising
uprising in British English
(ˈʌpˌraɪzɪŋ, ʌpˈraɪzɪŋ)
noun
1.
a revolt or rebellion
2. archaic
an ascent
uprising in American English
(ˈʌpˌraɪzɪŋ)
noun
1.
the action of rising up; specif., an outbreak against a government; revolt
2.
an upward slope or ascent
Examples of 'uprising' in a sentence
uprising
Telling people they have to throw their lot in with the banks at this time would risk a popular uprising.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The roundabout was the hub of the demonstrations last year until troops crushed the uprising.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Therefore, you cannot say that this is a popular uprising.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In southern France it triggered a popular uprising.
Christy Campbell PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World (2004)
Over these past few weeks, there have been stirrings of popular uprising in support at what is to come.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The ruling means that no one has been found guilty for the deaths of more than 800 people during the uprising.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The country's secret police have such an iron grip that any hint of popular uprising recently has been quickly crushed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
After the post-election uprising was crushed, the villagers realized they had been misled.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
To judge the Revolution by standards of conventional morality was to rob the people 's uprising of its natural legitimacy.
Adam Sisman The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge (2006)
Not a place you expect to find a people 's uprising, but just the right sort of classless grazing ground.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Prior to his election, a popular uprising against foreign gas producers led to an 80 per cent increase in gas royalties.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Six months after he was toppled as President by a popular uprising, he rejected the charges of corruption and murder against him.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
By removing the civil service, it can at least avoid a repeat of the 1988 uprising when government workers took to the streets alongside students.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
uprising
British English: uprising NOUN
When there is an uprising, a group of people start fighting against the people who are in power in their country, because they want to bring about a political change.
...an uprising against the government.
American English: uprising
Brazilian Portuguese: revolta
Chinese: 起义
European Spanish: sublevación
French: soulèvement
German: Aufstand
Italian: insurrezione
Japanese: 反乱
Korean: 반란
European Portuguese: revolta
Latin American Spanish: sublevación
Chinese translation of 'uprising'
uprising
(ˈʌpraɪzɪŋ)
n(c)
起义(義) (qǐyì)
(noun)
Definition
a revolt or rebellion
a popular uprising against the authoritarian government
Synonyms
rebellion
They soon put down the rebellion.
rising
revolution
after the French Revolution
outbreak
revolt
a revolt by ordinary people against the leaders
disturbance
upheaval
a prolonged period of political upheaval
mutiny
A series of mutinies in the armed forces destabilized the regime.
insurrection
They were plotting to stage an armed insurrection.
putsch
insurgence
Additional synonyms
in the sense of insurrection
Definition
the act of rebelling against an established authority
They were plotting to stage an armed insurrection.
Synonyms
rebellion,
rising,
revolution,
riot,
coup,
revolt,
uprising,
mutiny,
insurgency,
putsch,
sedition
in the sense of mutiny
Definition
open rebellion against authority, esp. by sailors or soldiers against their officers
A series of mutinies in the armed forces destabilized the regime.
Synonyms
rebellion,
revolt,
uprising,
insurrection,
rising,
strike,
revolution,
riot,
resistance,
disobedience,
insubordination,
refusal to obey orders
in the sense of revolt
Definition
to rise up in rebellion against authority
a revolt by ordinary people against the leaders
Synonyms
uprising,
rising,
revolution,
riot,
rebellion,
uprising,
mutiny,
defection,
insurrection,
subversion,
insurgency,
putsch,
sedition,
insurgence
Synonyms of 'uprising'
uprising
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Additional synonyms
in the sense of revolution
Definition
the overthrow of a regime or political system by the governed