uprising
noun
up·ris·ing
ˈəp-ˌrī-ziŋ 
: an act or instance of rising up
especially
: a usually localized act of popular violence in defiance usually of an established government
Synonyms
Examples of uprising in a Sentence
The government quickly put down the uprising.
the uprising was quickly and brutally suppressed
Recent Examples on the Web
Brown’s goal was to arm and inspire an uprising among enslaved people.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Many of his customers were in the Donbas, the eastern region where, in 2014, Russia incited and backed a separatist uprising.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
In 1970, the year after the Stonewall uprising, infuriated gay activists began infiltrating these conferences and raucously demanding an end to such mistreatment and the delisting of homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2024
Mexico’s Catholic leaders had mediated in crises before — notably, after the uprising by Indigenous Zapatista rebels in 1994.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
But they have been joined by larger waves of migrants from Belarus, after the 2020 uprising there, and from Ukraine, after the Russian invasion.
—Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
Failing to follow labor market trends could foment employee uprisings and workers may unionize or bargain for wage hikes, Bant says.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
National tensions over slavery were already boiling over when, a few months earlier, John Brown launched a raid on Harpers Ferry, hoping to spark a slave uprising.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
The Roman war culminated in a large-scale Jewish uprising in Judea that was ultimately crushed in the year 136, a catastrophe that precipitated the demise of the Jewish center of Jesus’s movement.
—James Carroll, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Many of his customers were in the Donbas, the eastern region where, in 2014, Russia incited and backed a separatist uprising.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
In 1970, the year after the Stonewall uprising, infuriated gay activists began infiltrating these conferences and raucously demanding an end to such mistreatment and the delisting of homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2024
Mexico’s Catholic leaders had mediated in crises before — notably, after the uprising by Indigenous Zapatista rebels in 1994.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
But they have been joined by larger waves of migrants from Belarus, after the 2020 uprising there, and from Ukraine, after the Russian invasion.
—Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
Failing to follow labor market trends could foment employee uprisings and workers may unionize or bargain for wage hikes, Bant says.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
National tensions over slavery were already boiling over when, a few months earlier, John Brown launched a raid on Harpers Ferry, hoping to spark a slave uprising.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
The Roman war culminated in a large-scale Jewish uprising in Judea that was ultimately crushed in the year 136, a catastrophe that precipitated the demise of the Jewish center of Jesus’s movement.
—James Carroll, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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uprising
noun
up·ris·ing
ˈəp-ˌrī-ziŋ
: an act or instance of rising up
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