Definition of rebel in English:

rebel

nounPlural rebels ˈrɛb(ə)lˈrɛbəl

1A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader.
Tory rebels
as modifier rebel forces
Example sentencesExamples
- The rebel movement was the armed wing of an opposition group, the Popular Congress Party, Adam said.
- These reluctant leaders tamed disorderly rebels into a disciplined force, and sought enough concessions from the king to send the commons home content.
- This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity.
- The rebel leaders had taken the high ground, and as many as 300 strong outnumbered the troops by approximately three to one.
- Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, according to two survivors.
- The rebel leaders, as a result, have sent their embarrassing child-soldiers back across the border into Liberia.
- Police blamed the explosion on rebels waging an armed insurrection in the kingdom.
- Since 1991 the rebel force Revolutionary United Front has abducted 15,000 children.
- In 1986, the rebel leader travelled to Washington where he was received like a head of state, meeting the President in the Oval Office.
- Toussaint had honed his defiant style for years as a leader of a rebel faction whose positions sometimes seemed like militancy for its own sake.
- But the State Department said the United States and its international partners do not recognize the rebel leader as head of the Haitian armed forces.
- On some of the 11 other complaints lodged by lawyers of the jailed rebel leader, the court ruled in Turkey's favour.
- The rebels waging the armed insurgency have in the past also set free soldiers or policemen captured during fighting with government forces.
- The underground fighters have been called many things in the past - hostiles, insurgents, rebels, militants, armed Naga gangs.
- Heavily armed security forces then stormed the place and caught the rebel leader by surprise.
- However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said.
- Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement.
- But they have failed to kill or capture the main rebel leaders, or flush the guerrillas out of the south.
- There are no insurance companies in rebel-held eastern Congo, and the Rwandan-backed rebels who control the city have no resources of their own to assist the victims.
- Putin canceled his trip to Mexico to deal with the hostage crisis at a Moscow theater, which ended Saturday after Russian special forces stormed it and killed the rebel leader and many in his group.
Synonyms
revolutionary, insurgent, revolutionist, mutineer, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist, terrorist
freedom fighter, resistance fighter
traitor, renegade
in Mexico, historical Zapatista
in South America, historical Montonero
rare insurrectionist, insurrectionary
insurgent, revolutionary, mutinous, rebellious, mutinying
traitorous, renegade
rare insurrectionary, insurrectionist
1. 1.1 A person who resists authority, control, or convention.
  Example sentencesExamples
  After all, the rise of the rebel biker has literally been hand-in-hand with the advent of popular and alternative culture.
  Right from the white-T-shirted, blue-jeaned Adonis of his early films, and even before that, Brando was a rebel and a maverick.
  Power is hierarchical; the rebel challenges authority, presumes to be the defiant equal of his creator or of his king, and is convinced that his stubbornness will redeem him.
  But, hey, I'm a rebel without a clue, so I'm going to do it.
  That's changing, thanks to the Internet, and to rogues and rebels like Tong and his collaborators at his Studios.
  Hetfield, still the rebel bad boy, resists the process until he goes into rehab for six months and gets with the Program.
  He was seen as a rebel who challenged authority in order to preserve his freedom.
  Jude is a tour de force, a refashioned version of the Jewish mother as a bohemian, a rebel against convention who critiques mainstream culture.
  And yet that same culture would flatter us into believing we are a nation of mavericks and rebels.
  Stiglitz himself, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics last year, was something of a maverick, an internal rebel.
  Once feared by the authorities and celebrated by rebels from Notting Hill to Zimbabwe, roots reggae has been sanitised.
  The idea that children are natural rebels who reject convention and prefer a state of anarchy is bunk.
  You're not exactly a rebel to authority, but you never hesitate to challenge anyone who assumes power irresponsibly.
  But then so did my family, including the experience with the collection of mavericks, doughty rebels and oddballs that was the Latin Mass Society.
  Back then, I was into Bukowski the iconoclast, the rebel with that irreverent humour.
  During her years at Westminster she became a notable rebel, supporting controversial causes, such as the Troops Out campaign for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland.
  It isn't very easy to control a rebel daughter, but somehow I managed.
  Synonyms
  nonconformist, dissenter, dissident, iconoclast, maverick
  heretic, recusant, apostate, schismatic
  informal bad boy

verbrebels, rebelled, rebelling rɪˈbɛlrɛˈbəl

[no object]

1Rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or leader.
the Earl of Pembroke subsequently rebelled against Henry III
Example sentencesExamples
- During the first 150 years the Jews twice rebelled against their Roman leaders, both rebellions were brutally put down, and were followed by stern restrictions on Jewish freedom.
- It became the intellectual and emotional sign of opposition, rejecting racial humiliation, rebelling against domination and ultimately leading to revolution.
- The Vesey rebellion conspiracy has been seen as one of a handful of examples of militant, coordinated, large-scale resistance in a country where slaves almost never rebelled.
- In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm.
- Aristede paid tribute to national hero Toussaint L' Ouverture, the leader of African slaves who rebelled against the French colonial government.
- Three Congress leaders rebelled and Sonia resigned as party president.
- Thus, after four years of unsuccessful petitions to their state leaders, the backcountry farmers rebelled.
- Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy.
- Was he rebelling against the Republican establishment?
- We should be thanking Teina for doing what other MPs have been frightened to do - rebel against their leader.
- Twenty years later they were to be left with no more than the recently conquered Canada, as their old colonies rebelled and established the new United States of America.
- In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade.
- The Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday.
- The end result was that the congregation was told that I had rebelled against our much-beloved leader's authority, had done despite to the church and should be told to come no longer.
- The continuing nightmare of the war is making soldiers rebel against their leaders' plans.
- Instead of these ancient bones heralding the rise and rise of man, they are actually a warning against rebelling against God and losing all.
- The Muslim Governer of Hydrabad in southern India rebelled and established a separate Shi'a state, he also reintroduced religious toleration.
- America rose up and rebelled, and then expanded in power until it tipped the balance during World War One and harnessed the power of the atom to win World War Two.
- It has also created the foundation behind which Hanson has been able to create a following that rebelled against the established ‘royal chamber and its courtiers’.
- I thought it was tied, before two of the opposition rebelled!
Synonyms
revolt, mutiny, riot, rise up, rise up in arms, take up arms, stage/mount a rebellion, take to the streets, defy the authorities, refuse to obey orders, be insubordinate
1. 1.1 Resist authority, control, or convention.
  respect did not prevent children from rebelling against their parents
  Example sentencesExamples
  We must settle for nothing less than leaders who care and exude character and maturity as they rebel against the beliefs and models that no longer work.
  People rebel, either secretly or openly, against an airtight system, two towers of power representing the same people in charge, the illusion of difference.
  As I grew older, body image was very important to her, so it must be her fault that I rebelled by becoming the opposite of her ideal image.
  Jorg Haider points out that ‘a gap has developed between the people and the political establishment… and now people are rebelling all over the place’ .
  They can't prohibit us from rising up and rebelling.
  As the casualty toll rose, eventually they would rebel at the cost of the war and force the government of the day to bring the army home.
  Teenage rebellion finds so little opposition that it tends to rebel against anything it comes across.
  It is time for the other Serie A clubs to rise up and rebel against this situation.
  And if they joined the United States armed services, they surely did not join to rebel or defect to the enemy.
  Durso skillfully gleans her story from both primary and secondary sources, portraying a woman who rebelled against established societal norms.
  You function best in a position of control and rebel against domination by people in power or authority.
  You function best in a position of control and may rebel against power or authority or domination at work.
  That it came down to whether one felt McEnroe was rebelling against the establishment - so eagerly represented by English tennis - or merely bullying a flustered fellow in a blazer from middle England.
  Even anarchists who rebel against every establishment have their own establishment of rules.
  However, studying the general population of adolescents revealed that many do not rebel against authority but maintain good relationships with parents and teachers throughout.
  Mind you, I never really rebelled, so maybe that's what this is now.
  Well, individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.
  Are you saying that America rebelled against its leaders?
  He subsequently rebelled against an arranged marriage and fled to Johannesburg in 1941.
  My only solace is the fact that most kids rebel against their teachers and do the opposite.
  An official from the union, which recommended the offer, declared, ‘the members are rebelling and not respecting their union leaders.’
  Synonyms
  defy, disobey, refuse to obey, flout, kick against, challenge, oppose, resist, be at odds with, refuse to accept the authority of, repudiate
  dissent
  fly in the face of, kick over the traces
2. 1.2 Show or feel repugnance for or resistance to something.
  as I came over the hill my legs rebelled—I could walk no further
  Example sentencesExamples
  Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against.
  Her mind, her soul, all her being rebelled against it, but accept it she must, and, if Adam had anything to do with it, accept it she would.
  His body and mind rebelled and he could not cope with the torture anymore.
  And I found that I hated having a numb mind and I was rebelling against that and writing.
  Americans know Europe as the society against which the US rebelled and, in the American mind, superseded.
  It was as if her logical mind was fully intent on rebelling against her.
  The mind rebels at the attempt: one child randomly slain on the threshold of adulthood, the other burdened for life with the guilt of Cain.
  Part of me still rebelled, urged my legs to slow down, not to get to the class early.
  Our insights and ‘change of mind’ invite us to rebel against the traditional ways we live, think, and lead and to do so in creative ways.
  Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control.
  His conscious mind rebelled against this notion, but it mattered not.
  We think we make our own decisions, then find out years later that we were rebelling against decisions made for us, and rebellions are always imposed on people.
  Charlie's mind immediately rebelled at the notion; neither of her friends would do such a thing.
  Pressing on despite his rebelling mind he came to the boiler itself, a short walk from the stairs and looking like it hadn't seen the light of day for a good two hundred years.
  Conscientious and conservative judges, both state and federal, should have rebelled against the abortion decision in Roe.
  A few times I tried to call my mind to what I was going to do, but my mind rebelled against the effort.
  It is a language which invites the mind to rebel against itself causing inflamed ideas grotesque postures and a theoretical approach to common body functions.
  His very mind and heart rebelled at the very thought.
  She threw her body violently upright and stiffened, breathing heavily against her rebelling mind, pressing her thoughts into the silent empty space around her.
  He was prepared to face the deadly or the bizarre, but some orderly corner of his mind still rebelled against uncertainty.
  Synonyms
  recoil, show/feel repugnance
  shrink (from), flinch (from), shy away (from), pull back (from)

Origin

Middle English: from Old French rebelle (noun), rebeller (verb), from Latin rebellis (used originally with reference to a fresh declaration of war by the defeated), based on bellum 'war'.

The Latin word rebellis was originally used in reference to someone making a fresh declaration of war after being defeated. The root was bellum ‘war’, as in bellicose (Late Middle English) or ‘warlike’, combined with re- ‘again’. A person who is deeply dissatisfied by society in general but does not have a specific aim to fight for might be described as a rebel without a cause. The first such person was James Dean, star of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. Revel (Late Middle English) comes from the French equivalent, which developed the sense ‘to make a noise’ from the basic sense ‘to rise in rebellion’.

Rhymes

Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell pebble, treble

Definition of rebel in US English:

rebel

nounˈrebəlˈrɛbəl

1A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler.
Tory rebels
as modifier rebel forces
Example sentencesExamples
- Since 1991 the rebel force Revolutionary United Front has abducted 15,000 children.
- Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement.
- This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity.
- The rebel leaders had taken the high ground, and as many as 300 strong outnumbered the troops by approximately three to one.
- The rebels waging the armed insurgency have in the past also set free soldiers or policemen captured during fighting with government forces.
- The rebel leaders, as a result, have sent their embarrassing child-soldiers back across the border into Liberia.
- There are no insurance companies in rebel-held eastern Congo, and the Rwandan-backed rebels who control the city have no resources of their own to assist the victims.
- The rebel movement was the armed wing of an opposition group, the Popular Congress Party, Adam said.
- On some of the 11 other complaints lodged by lawyers of the jailed rebel leader, the court ruled in Turkey's favour.
- But the State Department said the United States and its international partners do not recognize the rebel leader as head of the Haitian armed forces.
- These reluctant leaders tamed disorderly rebels into a disciplined force, and sought enough concessions from the king to send the commons home content.
- Toussaint had honed his defiant style for years as a leader of a rebel faction whose positions sometimes seemed like militancy for its own sake.
- The underground fighters have been called many things in the past - hostiles, insurgents, rebels, militants, armed Naga gangs.
- Putin canceled his trip to Mexico to deal with the hostage crisis at a Moscow theater, which ended Saturday after Russian special forces stormed it and killed the rebel leader and many in his group.
- Police blamed the explosion on rebels waging an armed insurrection in the kingdom.
- Heavily armed security forces then stormed the place and caught the rebel leader by surprise.
- Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, according to two survivors.
- In 1986, the rebel leader travelled to Washington where he was received like a head of state, meeting the President in the Oval Office.
- But they have failed to kill or capture the main rebel leaders, or flush the guerrillas out of the south.
- However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said.
Synonyms
revolutionary, insurgent, revolutionist, mutineer, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist, terrorist
insurgent, revolutionary, mutinous, rebellious, mutinying
1. 1.1 A person who resists authority, control, or convention.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Hetfield, still the rebel bad boy, resists the process until he goes into rehab for six months and gets with the Program.
  Once feared by the authorities and celebrated by rebels from Notting Hill to Zimbabwe, roots reggae has been sanitised.
  After all, the rise of the rebel biker has literally been hand-in-hand with the advent of popular and alternative culture.
  Power is hierarchical; the rebel challenges authority, presumes to be the defiant equal of his creator or of his king, and is convinced that his stubbornness will redeem him.
  You're not exactly a rebel to authority, but you never hesitate to challenge anyone who assumes power irresponsibly.
  It isn't very easy to control a rebel daughter, but somehow I managed.
  During her years at Westminster she became a notable rebel, supporting controversial causes, such as the Troops Out campaign for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland.
  Right from the white-T-shirted, blue-jeaned Adonis of his early films, and even before that, Brando was a rebel and a maverick.
  Back then, I was into Bukowski the iconoclast, the rebel with that irreverent humour.
  And yet that same culture would flatter us into believing we are a nation of mavericks and rebels.
  Stiglitz himself, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics last year, was something of a maverick, an internal rebel.
  That's changing, thanks to the Internet, and to rogues and rebels like Tong and his collaborators at his Studios.
  He was seen as a rebel who challenged authority in order to preserve his freedom.
  Jude is a tour de force, a refashioned version of the Jewish mother as a bohemian, a rebel against convention who critiques mainstream culture.
  But, hey, I'm a rebel without a clue, so I'm going to do it.
  But then so did my family, including the experience with the collection of mavericks, doughty rebels and oddballs that was the Latin Mass Society.
  The idea that children are natural rebels who reject convention and prefer a state of anarchy is bunk.
  Synonyms
  nonconformist, dissenter, dissident, iconoclast, maverick

verbreˈbəlrɛˈbəl

[no object]rebel

1Rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
the Earl of Pembroke subsequently rebelled against Henry III
Example sentencesExamples
- The continuing nightmare of the war is making soldiers rebel against their leaders' plans.
- Three Congress leaders rebelled and Sonia resigned as party president.
- The Muslim Governer of Hydrabad in southern India rebelled and established a separate Shi'a state, he also reintroduced religious toleration.
- The Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday.
- The end result was that the congregation was told that I had rebelled against our much-beloved leader's authority, had done despite to the church and should be told to come no longer.
- It has also created the foundation behind which Hanson has been able to create a following that rebelled against the established ‘royal chamber and its courtiers’.
- It became the intellectual and emotional sign of opposition, rejecting racial humiliation, rebelling against domination and ultimately leading to revolution.
- During the first 150 years the Jews twice rebelled against their Roman leaders, both rebellions were brutally put down, and were followed by stern restrictions on Jewish freedom.
- In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade.
- America rose up and rebelled, and then expanded in power until it tipped the balance during World War One and harnessed the power of the atom to win World War Two.
- In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm.
- Was he rebelling against the Republican establishment?
- Aristede paid tribute to national hero Toussaint L' Ouverture, the leader of African slaves who rebelled against the French colonial government.
- The Vesey rebellion conspiracy has been seen as one of a handful of examples of militant, coordinated, large-scale resistance in a country where slaves almost never rebelled.
- Instead of these ancient bones heralding the rise and rise of man, they are actually a warning against rebelling against God and losing all.
- Thus, after four years of unsuccessful petitions to their state leaders, the backcountry farmers rebelled.
- I thought it was tied, before two of the opposition rebelled!
- Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy.
- We should be thanking Teina for doing what other MPs have been frightened to do - rebel against their leader.
- Twenty years later they were to be left with no more than the recently conquered Canada, as their old colonies rebelled and established the new United States of America.
Synonyms
revolt, mutiny, riot, rise up, rise up in arms, take up arms, mount a rebellion, stage a rebellion, take to the streets, defy the authorities, refuse to obey orders, be insubordinate
1. 1.1 (of a person) resist authority, control, or convention.
  respect did not prevent children from rebelling against their parents
  Example sentencesExamples
  We must settle for nothing less than leaders who care and exude character and maturity as they rebel against the beliefs and models that no longer work.
  It is time for the other Serie A clubs to rise up and rebel against this situation.
  They can't prohibit us from rising up and rebelling.
  Well, individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.
  An official from the union, which recommended the offer, declared, ‘the members are rebelling and not respecting their union leaders.’
  He subsequently rebelled against an arranged marriage and fled to Johannesburg in 1941.
  As I grew older, body image was very important to her, so it must be her fault that I rebelled by becoming the opposite of her ideal image.
  As the casualty toll rose, eventually they would rebel at the cost of the war and force the government of the day to bring the army home.
  Teenage rebellion finds so little opposition that it tends to rebel against anything it comes across.
  My only solace is the fact that most kids rebel against their teachers and do the opposite.
  You function best in a position of control and may rebel against power or authority or domination at work.
  Even anarchists who rebel against every establishment have their own establishment of rules.
  However, studying the general population of adolescents revealed that many do not rebel against authority but maintain good relationships with parents and teachers throughout.
  Mind you, I never really rebelled, so maybe that's what this is now.
  People rebel, either secretly or openly, against an airtight system, two towers of power representing the same people in charge, the illusion of difference.
  You function best in a position of control and rebel against domination by people in power or authority.
  Durso skillfully gleans her story from both primary and secondary sources, portraying a woman who rebelled against established societal norms.
  And if they joined the United States armed services, they surely did not join to rebel or defect to the enemy.
  Are you saying that America rebelled against its leaders?
  Jorg Haider points out that ‘a gap has developed between the people and the political establishment… and now people are rebelling all over the place’ .
  That it came down to whether one felt McEnroe was rebelling against the establishment - so eagerly represented by English tennis - or merely bullying a flustered fellow in a blazer from middle England.
  Synonyms
  defy, disobey, refuse to obey, flout, kick against, challenge, oppose, resist, be at odds with, refuse to accept the authority of, repudiate
2. 1.2 Show or feel repugnance for or resistance to something.
  as I came over the hill my legs rebelled—I could walk no further
  Example sentencesExamples
  We think we make our own decisions, then find out years later that we were rebelling against decisions made for us, and rebellions are always imposed on people.
  His very mind and heart rebelled at the very thought.
  Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against.
  Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control.
  Her mind, her soul, all her being rebelled against it, but accept it she must, and, if Adam had anything to do with it, accept it she would.
  She threw her body violently upright and stiffened, breathing heavily against her rebelling mind, pressing her thoughts into the silent empty space around her.
  His conscious mind rebelled against this notion, but it mattered not.
  The mind rebels at the attempt: one child randomly slain on the threshold of adulthood, the other burdened for life with the guilt of Cain.
  Americans know Europe as the society against which the US rebelled and, in the American mind, superseded.
  Our insights and ‘change of mind’ invite us to rebel against the traditional ways we live, think, and lead and to do so in creative ways.
  A few times I tried to call my mind to what I was going to do, but my mind rebelled against the effort.
  His body and mind rebelled and he could not cope with the torture anymore.
  Conscientious and conservative judges, both state and federal, should have rebelled against the abortion decision in Roe.
  Pressing on despite his rebelling mind he came to the boiler itself, a short walk from the stairs and looking like it hadn't seen the light of day for a good two hundred years.
  He was prepared to face the deadly or the bizarre, but some orderly corner of his mind still rebelled against uncertainty.
  Part of me still rebelled, urged my legs to slow down, not to get to the class early.
  It is a language which invites the mind to rebel against itself causing inflamed ideas grotesque postures and a theoretical approach to common body functions.
  And I found that I hated having a numb mind and I was rebelling against that and writing.
  It was as if her logical mind was fully intent on rebelling against her.
  Charlie's mind immediately rebelled at the notion; neither of her friends would do such a thing.
  Synonyms
  recoil, feel repugnance, show repugnance

Origin

Middle English: from Old French rebelle (noun), rebeller (verb), from Latin rebellis (used originally with reference to a fresh declaration of war by the defeated), based on bellum ‘war’.

单词	rebel
释义	Definition of rebel in English: rebel nounPlural rebels ˈrɛb(ə)lˈrɛbəl 1A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader. Tory rebels as modifier rebel forces Example sentencesExamples The rebel movement was the armed wing of an opposition group, the Popular Congress Party, Adam said. These reluctant leaders tamed disorderly rebels into a disciplined force, and sought enough concessions from the king to send the commons home content. This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity. The rebel leaders had taken the high ground, and as many as 300 strong outnumbered the troops by approximately three to one. Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, according to two survivors. The rebel leaders, as a result, have sent their embarrassing child-soldiers back across the border into Liberia. Police blamed the explosion on rebels waging an armed insurrection in the kingdom. Since 1991 the rebel force Revolutionary United Front has abducted 15,000 children. In 1986, the rebel leader travelled to Washington where he was received like a head of state, meeting the President in the Oval Office. Toussaint had honed his defiant style for years as a leader of a rebel faction whose positions sometimes seemed like militancy for its own sake. But the State Department said the United States and its international partners do not recognize the rebel leader as head of the Haitian armed forces. On some of the 11 other complaints lodged by lawyers of the jailed rebel leader, the court ruled in Turkey's favour. The rebels waging the armed insurgency have in the past also set free soldiers or policemen captured during fighting with government forces. The underground fighters have been called many things in the past - hostiles, insurgents, rebels, militants, armed Naga gangs. Heavily armed security forces then stormed the place and caught the rebel leader by surprise. However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said. Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement. But they have failed to kill or capture the main rebel leaders, or flush the guerrillas out of the south. There are no insurance companies in rebel-held eastern Congo, and the Rwandan-backed rebels who control the city have no resources of their own to assist the victims. Putin canceled his trip to Mexico to deal with the hostage crisis at a Moscow theater, which ended Saturday after Russian special forces stormed it and killed the rebel leader and many in his group. Synonyms revolutionary, insurgent, revolutionist, mutineer, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist, terrorist freedom fighter, resistance fighter traitor, renegade in Mexico, historical Zapatista in South America, historical Montonero rare insurrectionist, insurrectionary insurgent, revolutionary, mutinous, rebellious, mutinying traitorous, renegade rare insurrectionary, insurrectionist 1.1 A person who resists authority, control, or convention. Example sentencesExamples After all, the rise of the rebel biker has literally been hand-in-hand with the advent of popular and alternative culture. Right from the white-T-shirted, blue-jeaned Adonis of his early films, and even before that, Brando was a rebel and a maverick. Power is hierarchical; the rebel challenges authority, presumes to be the defiant equal of his creator or of his king, and is convinced that his stubbornness will redeem him. But, hey, I'm a rebel without a clue, so I'm going to do it. That's changing, thanks to the Internet, and to rogues and rebels like Tong and his collaborators at his Studios. Hetfield, still the rebel bad boy, resists the process until he goes into rehab for six months and gets with the Program. He was seen as a rebel who challenged authority in order to preserve his freedom. Jude is a tour de force, a refashioned version of the Jewish mother as a bohemian, a rebel against convention who critiques mainstream culture. And yet that same culture would flatter us into believing we are a nation of mavericks and rebels. Stiglitz himself, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics last year, was something of a maverick, an internal rebel. Once feared by the authorities and celebrated by rebels from Notting Hill to Zimbabwe, roots reggae has been sanitised. The idea that children are natural rebels who reject convention and prefer a state of anarchy is bunk. You're not exactly a rebel to authority, but you never hesitate to challenge anyone who assumes power irresponsibly. But then so did my family, including the experience with the collection of mavericks, doughty rebels and oddballs that was the Latin Mass Society. Back then, I was into Bukowski the iconoclast, the rebel with that irreverent humour. During her years at Westminster she became a notable rebel, supporting controversial causes, such as the Troops Out campaign for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. It isn't very easy to control a rebel daughter, but somehow I managed. Synonyms nonconformist, dissenter, dissident, iconoclast, maverick heretic, recusant, apostate, schismatic informal bad boy verbrebels, rebelled, rebelling rɪˈbɛlrɛˈbəl [no object] 1Rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or leader. the Earl of Pembroke subsequently rebelled against Henry III Example sentencesExamples During the first 150 years the Jews twice rebelled against their Roman leaders, both rebellions were brutally put down, and were followed by stern restrictions on Jewish freedom. It became the intellectual and emotional sign of opposition, rejecting racial humiliation, rebelling against domination and ultimately leading to revolution. The Vesey rebellion conspiracy has been seen as one of a handful of examples of militant, coordinated, large-scale resistance in a country where slaves almost never rebelled. In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm. Aristede paid tribute to national hero Toussaint L' Ouverture, the leader of African slaves who rebelled against the French colonial government. Three Congress leaders rebelled and Sonia resigned as party president. Thus, after four years of unsuccessful petitions to their state leaders, the backcountry farmers rebelled. Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy. Was he rebelling against the Republican establishment? We should be thanking Teina for doing what other MPs have been frightened to do - rebel against their leader. Twenty years later they were to be left with no more than the recently conquered Canada, as their old colonies rebelled and established the new United States of America. In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade. The Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday. The end result was that the congregation was told that I had rebelled against our much-beloved leader's authority, had done despite to the church and should be told to come no longer. The continuing nightmare of the war is making soldiers rebel against their leaders' plans. Instead of these ancient bones heralding the rise and rise of man, they are actually a warning against rebelling against God and losing all. The Muslim Governer of Hydrabad in southern India rebelled and established a separate Shi'a state, he also reintroduced religious toleration. America rose up and rebelled, and then expanded in power until it tipped the balance during World War One and harnessed the power of the atom to win World War Two. It has also created the foundation behind which Hanson has been able to create a following that rebelled against the established ‘royal chamber and its courtiers’. I thought it was tied, before two of the opposition rebelled! Synonyms revolt, mutiny, riot, rise up, rise up in arms, take up arms, stage/mount a rebellion, take to the streets, defy the authorities, refuse to obey orders, be insubordinate 1.1 Resist authority, control, or convention. respect did not prevent children from rebelling against their parents Example sentencesExamples We must settle for nothing less than leaders who care and exude character and maturity as they rebel against the beliefs and models that no longer work. People rebel, either secretly or openly, against an airtight system, two towers of power representing the same people in charge, the illusion of difference. As I grew older, body image was very important to her, so it must be her fault that I rebelled by becoming the opposite of her ideal image. Jorg Haider points out that ‘a gap has developed between the people and the political establishment… and now people are rebelling all over the place’ . They can't prohibit us from rising up and rebelling. As the casualty toll rose, eventually they would rebel at the cost of the war and force the government of the day to bring the army home. Teenage rebellion finds so little opposition that it tends to rebel against anything it comes across. It is time for the other Serie A clubs to rise up and rebel against this situation. And if they joined the United States armed services, they surely did not join to rebel or defect to the enemy. Durso skillfully gleans her story from both primary and secondary sources, portraying a woman who rebelled against established societal norms. You function best in a position of control and rebel against domination by people in power or authority. You function best in a position of control and may rebel against power or authority or domination at work. That it came down to whether one felt McEnroe was rebelling against the establishment - so eagerly represented by English tennis - or merely bullying a flustered fellow in a blazer from middle England. Even anarchists who rebel against every establishment have their own establishment of rules. However, studying the general population of adolescents revealed that many do not rebel against authority but maintain good relationships with parents and teachers throughout. Mind you, I never really rebelled, so maybe that's what this is now. Well, individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. Are you saying that America rebelled against its leaders? He subsequently rebelled against an arranged marriage and fled to Johannesburg in 1941. My only solace is the fact that most kids rebel against their teachers and do the opposite. An official from the union, which recommended the offer, declared, ‘the members are rebelling and not respecting their union leaders.’ Synonyms defy, disobey, refuse to obey, flout, kick against, challenge, oppose, resist, be at odds with, refuse to accept the authority of, repudiate dissent fly in the face of, kick over the traces 1.2 Show or feel repugnance for or resistance to something. as I came over the hill my legs rebelled—I could walk no further Example sentencesExamples Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against. Her mind, her soul, all her being rebelled against it, but accept it she must, and, if Adam had anything to do with it, accept it she would. His body and mind rebelled and he could not cope with the torture anymore. And I found that I hated having a numb mind and I was rebelling against that and writing. Americans know Europe as the society against which the US rebelled and, in the American mind, superseded. It was as if her logical mind was fully intent on rebelling against her. The mind rebels at the attempt: one child randomly slain on the threshold of adulthood, the other burdened for life with the guilt of Cain. Part of me still rebelled, urged my legs to slow down, not to get to the class early. Our insights and ‘change of mind’ invite us to rebel against the traditional ways we live, think, and lead and to do so in creative ways. Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control. His conscious mind rebelled against this notion, but it mattered not. We think we make our own decisions, then find out years later that we were rebelling against decisions made for us, and rebellions are always imposed on people. Charlie's mind immediately rebelled at the notion; neither of her friends would do such a thing. Pressing on despite his rebelling mind he came to the boiler itself, a short walk from the stairs and looking like it hadn't seen the light of day for a good two hundred years. Conscientious and conservative judges, both state and federal, should have rebelled against the abortion decision in Roe. A few times I tried to call my mind to what I was going to do, but my mind rebelled against the effort. It is a language which invites the mind to rebel against itself causing inflamed ideas grotesque postures and a theoretical approach to common body functions. His very mind and heart rebelled at the very thought. She threw her body violently upright and stiffened, breathing heavily against her rebelling mind, pressing her thoughts into the silent empty space around her. He was prepared to face the deadly or the bizarre, but some orderly corner of his mind still rebelled against uncertainty. Synonyms recoil, show/feel repugnance shrink (from), flinch (from), shy away (from), pull back (from) Origin Middle English: from Old French rebelle (noun), rebeller (verb), from Latin rebellis (used originally with reference to a fresh declaration of war by the defeated), based on bellum 'war'. The Latin word rebellis was originally used in reference to someone making a fresh declaration of war after being defeated. The root was bellum ‘war’, as in bellicose (Late Middle English) or ‘warlike’, combined with re- ‘again’. A person who is deeply dissatisfied by society in general but does not have a specific aim to fight for might be described as a rebel without a cause. The first such person was James Dean, star of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. Revel (Late Middle English) comes from the French equivalent, which developed the sense ‘to make a noise’ from the basic sense ‘to rise in rebellion’. Rhymes Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell pebble, treble Definition of rebel in US English: rebel nounˈrebəlˈrɛbəl 1A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler. Tory rebels as modifier rebel forces Example sentencesExamples Since 1991 the rebel force Revolutionary United Front has abducted 15,000 children. Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement. This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity. The rebel leaders had taken the high ground, and as many as 300 strong outnumbered the troops by approximately three to one. The rebels waging the armed insurgency have in the past also set free soldiers or policemen captured during fighting with government forces. The rebel leaders, as a result, have sent their embarrassing child-soldiers back across the border into Liberia. There are no insurance companies in rebel-held eastern Congo, and the Rwandan-backed rebels who control the city have no resources of their own to assist the victims. The rebel movement was the armed wing of an opposition group, the Popular Congress Party, Adam said. On some of the 11 other complaints lodged by lawyers of the jailed rebel leader, the court ruled in Turkey's favour. But the State Department said the United States and its international partners do not recognize the rebel leader as head of the Haitian armed forces. These reluctant leaders tamed disorderly rebels into a disciplined force, and sought enough concessions from the king to send the commons home content. Toussaint had honed his defiant style for years as a leader of a rebel faction whose positions sometimes seemed like militancy for its own sake. The underground fighters have been called many things in the past - hostiles, insurgents, rebels, militants, armed Naga gangs. Putin canceled his trip to Mexico to deal with the hostage crisis at a Moscow theater, which ended Saturday after Russian special forces stormed it and killed the rebel leader and many in his group. Police blamed the explosion on rebels waging an armed insurrection in the kingdom. Heavily armed security forces then stormed the place and caught the rebel leader by surprise. Dozens of boys and men suffocated to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, according to two survivors. In 1986, the rebel leader travelled to Washington where he was received like a head of state, meeting the President in the Oval Office. But they have failed to kill or capture the main rebel leaders, or flush the guerrillas out of the south. However, during the truce, the party's militia would respond with force in the event it came under attack from government security forces, the rebel leader said. Synonyms revolutionary, insurgent, revolutionist, mutineer, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist, terrorist insurgent, revolutionary, mutinous, rebellious, mutinying 1.1 A person who resists authority, control, or convention. Example sentencesExamples Hetfield, still the rebel bad boy, resists the process until he goes into rehab for six months and gets with the Program. Once feared by the authorities and celebrated by rebels from Notting Hill to Zimbabwe, roots reggae has been sanitised. After all, the rise of the rebel biker has literally been hand-in-hand with the advent of popular and alternative culture. Power is hierarchical; the rebel challenges authority, presumes to be the defiant equal of his creator or of his king, and is convinced that his stubbornness will redeem him. You're not exactly a rebel to authority, but you never hesitate to challenge anyone who assumes power irresponsibly. It isn't very easy to control a rebel daughter, but somehow I managed. During her years at Westminster she became a notable rebel, supporting controversial causes, such as the Troops Out campaign for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. Right from the white-T-shirted, blue-jeaned Adonis of his early films, and even before that, Brando was a rebel and a maverick. Back then, I was into Bukowski the iconoclast, the rebel with that irreverent humour. And yet that same culture would flatter us into believing we are a nation of mavericks and rebels. Stiglitz himself, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics last year, was something of a maverick, an internal rebel. That's changing, thanks to the Internet, and to rogues and rebels like Tong and his collaborators at his Studios. He was seen as a rebel who challenged authority in order to preserve his freedom. Jude is a tour de force, a refashioned version of the Jewish mother as a bohemian, a rebel against convention who critiques mainstream culture. But, hey, I'm a rebel without a clue, so I'm going to do it. But then so did my family, including the experience with the collection of mavericks, doughty rebels and oddballs that was the Latin Mass Society. The idea that children are natural rebels who reject convention and prefer a state of anarchy is bunk. Synonyms nonconformist, dissenter, dissident, iconoclast, maverick verbreˈbəlrɛˈbəl [no object]rebel 1Rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or ruler. the Earl of Pembroke subsequently rebelled against Henry III Example sentencesExamples The continuing nightmare of the war is making soldiers rebel against their leaders' plans. Three Congress leaders rebelled and Sonia resigned as party president. The Muslim Governer of Hydrabad in southern India rebelled and established a separate Shi'a state, he also reintroduced religious toleration. The Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday. The end result was that the congregation was told that I had rebelled against our much-beloved leader's authority, had done despite to the church and should be told to come no longer. It has also created the foundation behind which Hanson has been able to create a following that rebelled against the established ‘royal chamber and its courtiers’. It became the intellectual and emotional sign of opposition, rejecting racial humiliation, rebelling against domination and ultimately leading to revolution. During the first 150 years the Jews twice rebelled against their Roman leaders, both rebellions were brutally put down, and were followed by stern restrictions on Jewish freedom. In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade. America rose up and rebelled, and then expanded in power until it tipped the balance during World War One and harnessed the power of the atom to win World War Two. In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm. Was he rebelling against the Republican establishment? Aristede paid tribute to national hero Toussaint L' Ouverture, the leader of African slaves who rebelled against the French colonial government. The Vesey rebellion conspiracy has been seen as one of a handful of examples of militant, coordinated, large-scale resistance in a country where slaves almost never rebelled. Instead of these ancient bones heralding the rise and rise of man, they are actually a warning against rebelling against God and losing all. Thus, after four years of unsuccessful petitions to their state leaders, the backcountry farmers rebelled. I thought it was tied, before two of the opposition rebelled! Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy. We should be thanking Teina for doing what other MPs have been frightened to do - rebel against their leader. Twenty years later they were to be left with no more than the recently conquered Canada, as their old colonies rebelled and established the new United States of America. Synonyms revolt, mutiny, riot, rise up, rise up in arms, take up arms, mount a rebellion, stage a rebellion, take to the streets, defy the authorities, refuse to obey orders, be insubordinate 1.1 (of a person) resist authority, control, or convention. respect did not prevent children from rebelling against their parents Example sentencesExamples We must settle for nothing less than leaders who care and exude character and maturity as they rebel against the beliefs and models that no longer work. It is time for the other Serie A clubs to rise up and rebel against this situation. They can't prohibit us from rising up and rebelling. Well, individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. An official from the union, which recommended the offer, declared, ‘the members are rebelling and not respecting their union leaders.’ He subsequently rebelled against an arranged marriage and fled to Johannesburg in 1941. As I grew older, body image was very important to her, so it must be her fault that I rebelled by becoming the opposite of her ideal image. As the casualty toll rose, eventually they would rebel at the cost of the war and force the government of the day to bring the army home. Teenage rebellion finds so little opposition that it tends to rebel against anything it comes across. My only solace is the fact that most kids rebel against their teachers and do the opposite. You function best in a position of control and may rebel against power or authority or domination at work. Even anarchists who rebel against every establishment have their own establishment of rules. However, studying the general population of adolescents revealed that many do not rebel against authority but maintain good relationships with parents and teachers throughout. Mind you, I never really rebelled, so maybe that's what this is now. People rebel, either secretly or openly, against an airtight system, two towers of power representing the same people in charge, the illusion of difference. You function best in a position of control and rebel against domination by people in power or authority. Durso skillfully gleans her story from both primary and secondary sources, portraying a woman who rebelled against established societal norms. And if they joined the United States armed services, they surely did not join to rebel or defect to the enemy. Are you saying that America rebelled against its leaders? Jorg Haider points out that ‘a gap has developed between the people and the political establishment… and now people are rebelling all over the place’ . That it came down to whether one felt McEnroe was rebelling against the establishment - so eagerly represented by English tennis - or merely bullying a flustered fellow in a blazer from middle England. Synonyms defy, disobey, refuse to obey, flout, kick against, challenge, oppose, resist, be at odds with, refuse to accept the authority of, repudiate 1.2 Show or feel repugnance for or resistance to something. as I came over the hill my legs rebelled—I could walk no further Example sentencesExamples We think we make our own decisions, then find out years later that we were rebelling against decisions made for us, and rebellions are always imposed on people. His very mind and heart rebelled at the very thought. Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against. Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control. Her mind, her soul, all her being rebelled against it, but accept it she must, and, if Adam had anything to do with it, accept it she would. She threw her body violently upright and stiffened, breathing heavily against her rebelling mind, pressing her thoughts into the silent empty space around her. His conscious mind rebelled against this notion, but it mattered not. The mind rebels at the attempt: one child randomly slain on the threshold of adulthood, the other burdened for life with the guilt of Cain. Americans know Europe as the society against which the US rebelled and, in the American mind, superseded. Our insights and ‘change of mind’ invite us to rebel against the traditional ways we live, think, and lead and to do so in creative ways. A few times I tried to call my mind to what I was going to do, but my mind rebelled against the effort. His body and mind rebelled and he could not cope with the torture anymore. Conscientious and conservative judges, both state and federal, should have rebelled against the abortion decision in Roe. Pressing on despite his rebelling mind he came to the boiler itself, a short walk from the stairs and looking like it hadn't seen the light of day for a good two hundred years. He was prepared to face the deadly or the bizarre, but some orderly corner of his mind still rebelled against uncertainty. Part of me still rebelled, urged my legs to slow down, not to get to the class early. It is a language which invites the mind to rebel against itself causing inflamed ideas grotesque postures and a theoretical approach to common body functions. And I found that I hated having a numb mind and I was rebelling against that and writing. It was as if her logical mind was fully intent on rebelling against her. Charlie's mind immediately rebelled at the notion; neither of her friends would do such a thing. Synonyms recoil, feel repugnance, show repugnance Origin Middle English: from Old French rebelle (noun), rebeller (verb), from Latin rebellis (used originally with reference to a fresh declaration of war by the defeated), based on bellum ‘war’.
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