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    Reb·el

    noun

    verb

    • 1. rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or ruler: "the Earl of Pembroke subsequently rebelled against Henry III" Similar revoltmutinyriotrise up
  2. The meaning of REBEL is opposing or taking arms against a government or ruler. How to use rebel in a sentence.

  3. A rebel is a person who resists or defies rules or norms or rises up against the powers that be. In its more serious sense, a rebel is a revolutionary trying to overthrow a government.

  4. a person who refuses to accept the governments power and uses force to oppose it, or a person who opposes authority and thinks or behaves differently: The government tried to set up talks with the rebels. Though he dressed unusually, he never meant to be a rebel. US history.

  5. a person who refuses to accept the governments power and uses force to oppose it, or a person who opposes authority and thinks or behaves differently: The government tried to set up talks with the rebels. Though he dressed unusually, he never meant to be a rebel. US history.

  6. A rebel is someone who fights authority. The story of a rebel often finds its way into books and movies. In the 1950s film "Rebel without a Cause," a teenager rebels against his parents. In the "Star Wars" movies, the Jedi rebel against the Empire.

  7. 1. To refuse allegiance to and oppose by force an established government or ruling authority. 2. To resist or defy an authority or a generally accepted convention. 3. To feel or express strong unwillingness or repugnance: She rebelled at the unwelcome suggestion. n. reb·el (rĕb′əl) 1. One who rebels or is in rebellion. 2.

  8. Rebels are people who are fighting against their own country's army in order to change the political system there. ...fighting between rebels and government forces. ...rebel forces in Liberia. Politicians who oppose some of their own party's policies can be referred to as rebels.

  9. You can say that someone is a rebel if you think that they behave differently from other people and have rejected the values of society or of their parents.

  10. a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Synonyms: insurrectionist, insurgent, traitor, mutineer. a person who resists any authority, control, or tradition.

  11. a person who opposes somebody in authority over them within an organization, a political party, etc. A number of Tory rebels are planning to vote against the government. The Education Secretary has made further concessions to the back-bench rebels. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.

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