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uprising Definition

up·ris·ing (uprī′ziŋ)

noun

  1. the action of rising up; specif., an outbreak against a government; revolt
  2. an upward slope or ascent

uprising Synonyms

uprising

n.

  1. Revolt

    rebellion, riot, upheaval; see revolution 2.

  2. Slope

    ascent, upgrade, incline; see hill.

uprising Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • quell: Thomas More attempts to quell the uprising with wise words pleading for racial harmony.
  • suppress: A bloody military campaign by Serb forces to suppress the uprising took almost 7 years to complete.
  • crush: A few weeks later, the government crushed an uprising by 400 troops in the capital.
  • instigate: He was also involved with the radical group who instigated the 1825 Decembrist uprising.
  • provoke: The French military occupation of Spain provokes a popular uprising against the French: beginning of the War of Independence.
  • spark: But on the other hand the very elimination of John could have sparked just the very uprising that Herod feared.

Preposition: against

  • occupation: However, in 1959 following a Tibetan uprising against the Chinese occupation, the practice of Buddhism was banned.

Adjective modifier

  • Hungarian: There are many lessons in the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
  • armed: An armed uprising in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 was put down by the British.
  • Kurdish: Here they might have faced a Kurdish uprising for national independence.
  • spontaneous: I called it a " spontaneous civil uprising of a " disenfranchised people " .

Noun used with modifier

  • Jacobite: Consider why the 45 was the last Jacobite uprising.
  • ghetto: The photographs range from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to the ghetto uprisings in 1968.
  • peasant: There is humor mixed with the wishful thinking in his imagined peasant uprising.
  • slave: They were particularly concerned that they would be used to signal a slave uprising.
  • mass: A mass uprising is no isolated undertaking, which can be conjured up any time one pleases.

Preposition: in

  • north: Queen Elizabeth I crushes a Catholic uprising in the north of England.

Preposition: of

  • proletariat: Firstly, as Trotsky had foreseen, when faced with a general uprising of the proletariat, the bureaucracy split.
uprising Quotes

O L, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo,O L, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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