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 Anarchy refers to the condition of a state when human government is superseded or destroyed by factions or other causes.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. The Atlantic:

   I don’t think it’s fundamentally about incivility. I think it is fundamentally about insurrection.

2. Adam Kinzinger:

   Liz Cheney is saying exactly what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the day of the insurrection. Liz Cheney has just consistently been saying it. A few weeks later House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy changed to attacking other people. I think what the reality is, as a party, we need to have an internal look and a full accounting as to what led to January 6, right now it is basically the Titanic. We're in the middle of this slow sink.

3. Ayanna Pressley:

   If we really believe that this is a moment of reckoning in every way then we must act accordingly, and that means that Donald J. Trump must be held accountable because he is culpable for having incited this insurrection by perpetuating this' big lie,' this House has twice done This House job. He will forever be the twice-impeached President by this Democratic majority-led This House.

4. Mitch McConnell:

   We all were here. We saw what happened, 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. That's what it was.

5. Cliff Albright:

   We've been watching a slow-motion insurrection taking place in front of our eyes for the past 11 months, and President Biden doesn't seem fully aware of what this county is up against, you can't sell something globally that you can't even protect at home.