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rebel
adjective as in not obeying
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noun as in person who does not obey
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guerrilla, insurgent, opponent, rioter, secessionist, separatist
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agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, dissenter, experimenter, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter, traitor, turncoat
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disectarian, experientialist, frondeur, insurrectionary, overthrower, revolter, schismatic, seditionist
verb as in refuse to obey
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boycott, censure, combat, criticize, denounce, disobey, dissent, fight, mutiny, oppose, overturn, remonstrate, riot, strike, upset
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be insubordinate, break with, come out against, drop out, get out of line, insurrect, make waves, opt out, rise up, rock the boat, run amok, turn against
Example Sentences
Joaquin, according to his parents, was a socially conscious rebel in life.
A landslide has killed at least 1,000 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, according to the rebel group The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.
Kigali has been accused of backing the M23 rebel group embroiled in the conflict in neighbouring DR Congo - an accusation it has denied.
Headlines on its front page include: "Cooked meats bring out Soviet voters in droves" - alongside a photo of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev - and "US rejects Iraqi warplanes plea as rebels close in".
But by the time he returned home, a group of conservative religious students turned rebel fighters were dominating Afghanistan’s messy, multisided civil war and had consolidated power over the capital.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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