REBELLED Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

rebelled

verb

past tense of rebel

as in revolted

to rise up against established authority the colonists rebelled in the wake of an onslaught of abuses

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Recent Examples of rebelled Recent developments have made new an old idea that emerged among nineteenth-century intellectuals in tsarist Russia who rebelled against the elite fixation with the West. — Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 That year, Indian soldiers serving the British East India Company rebelled against the British commanding officers, killing many of them and sparking an uprising that spread rapidly across much of northern India. — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026 The Chumash rebelled in 1824, the latest in a chain of Native Californian revolts against the friars. — Literary Hub, 29 July 2026 Those super-smart chimps, gorillas, and orangutans eventually evolved and rebelled against their human masters. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 July 2026 Fans didn’t like the new logo and also rebelled against the store redesigns. — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 27 July 2026 Bernthal rebelled against the affluence of his upbringing from an early age and charted a more circuitous path to success than his two brothers. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 16 July 2026 Not be outdone, a couple of New Jersey towns even 'rebelled' against data centers despite there being no plan to actually build them! — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 24 June 2026 As a young woman, my mother rebelled against this laborious femininity, mostly wearing jeans and loose men’s shirts. — Benny Peterson, Vogue, 4 May 2026

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When Puck acquired Air Mail, the media company founded by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, the latter’s luxury advertisers revolted.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026
The wars began when the Yorkists revolted against the unstable Lancastrian king, Henry VI, forcing him to disinherit his son and accept a York as his successor.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026