Synonyms for insurrection
ˌɪn səˈrɛk ʃənin·sur·rec·tion

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1. insurrection

   The essential idea of revolution is a change in the form of government or constitution, or a change of rulers, otherwise than as provided by the laws of succession, election, etc.; while such change is apt to involve armed hostilities, these make no necessary part of the revolution. The revolution by which Dom Pedro was dethroned, and Brazil changed from an empire to a republic, was accomplished without a battle, and almost without a shot. Anarchy refers to the condition of a state when human government is superseded or destroyed by factions or other causes. Lawlessness is a temper of mind or condition of the community which may result in anarchy. Confusion, disorder, riot, and tumult are incidental and temporary outbreaks of lawlessness, but may not be anarchy. Insubordination is individual disobedience. Sedition is the plotting, rebellion the fighting, against the existing government, but always with the purpose of establishing some other government in its place. When rebellion is successful it is called revolution; but there may be revolution without rebellion; as, the English Revolution of 1688. A revolt is an uprising against existing authority without the comprehensive views of change in the form or administration of government that are involved in revolution. Anarchy, when more than temporary disorder, is a proposed disintegration of society, in which it is imagined that social order might exist without government. Slaves make insurrection; soldiers or sailors break out in mutiny; subject provinces rise in revolt. Compare SOCIALISM.

   Synonyms:
   anarchy, confusion, disintegration, disorder, insubordination, lawlessness, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sedition, tumult

   Antonyms:
   authority, command, control, domination, dominion, empire, government, law, loyalty, obedience, order, rule, sovereignty, submission, supremacy

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1. insurrection

   Synonyms:
   rebellion, riot, rising, anarchy, tumult, mutiny, sedition, emeute, pronouncement, revolt

   Antonyms:
   law, peace, order, obedience, government, submission, subjection, servitude, bondage, subsidence, pacification, acquiescence

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1. rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprisingnoun

   organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

   Synonyms:
   rising, ascension, rise, rebellion, ascent, uprising, revolt

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1. insurrectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   rebellion, revolt, sedition, mutiny

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1. List of paraphrases for "insurrection":

   insurgency, uprising, rebellion, disobedience, revolt

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1. Bennie Thompson:

   Ivanka Trump kinda supported the fact that the President was told he had to do something to stop the January 6 insurrection. That he had to be public with it ; he had to be direct, so in that respect... Ivanka Trump have been able to systematically, with Ivanka Trump depositions and interviewing of other witnesses, Ivanka Trump've been able to fill in a lot of the gaps.

2. Stephen Colbert:

   It's predictable why these TV talkers are talking like this on the TV. They want to talk about something other than the January 6th hearings on the actual seditious insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple people, but drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy dog is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of everyone who died.

3. Mark Esper:

   The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act.

4. Luke Nikas:

   Mr. Baldwin donated several thousand dollars to Roice McCollum to honor Roice McCollum husband, and now Roice McCollum's suing him for more because Roice McCollum disagrees with his political opinion about the insurrection that occurred on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol Building. We expect to prevail in this lawsuit, as we did the last time they filed it.

5. Mitch McConnell:

   It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next.