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Noun uprising has 1 sense

• uprising(n = noun.act) insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising - organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another; Array
is a kind of battle, conflict, struggle
has particulars: insurgence, insurgency, intifada, intifadah, mutiny, great revolt, peasant's revolt, indian mutiny, sepoy mutiny

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uprising

abruptness, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, anabasis, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, civil disorder, clamber, climb, climbing, coup d'etat, elevation, emeute, escalade, fountain, general uprising, gradient, gush, gyring up, in the ascendant, increase, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, jacquerie, jet, jump, leap, leaping, levee en masse, levitation, mount, mounting, mutiny, outbreak, peasant revolt, precipitousness, putsch, rampant, rearing, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, rise, rising, rising ground, rocketing up, saltation, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, shooting up, skyrocketing, soaring, spiraling, spout, spring, springing, spurt, steepness, surge, takeoff, taking off, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upwith, vault, vertical height, verticalness, zooming

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uprising

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

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