rising

2 ENTRIES FOUND:

rising

noun

Definition of RISING

1
open fighting against authority (as one's own government) <a great rising of the people was all it took to bring down a regime that imagined that it would endure for a thousand years>
Related Words coup, coup d'état (or coup d{apos}etat), overthrow; misprision, sedition, treachery, treason; sabotage, subversion
2
the act or an instance of rising or climbing up <the rising of the sun>

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