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mutinied
verb as in defy, revolt
Strongest match
Example Sentences
At the end of October, German naval crews mutinied, and within a week, revolutionary outbreaks had spread to every big German city.
Peng began as a commander in the China-backed Burmese Communist Party, but he mutinied in 1989 as Chinese support stopped, breaking the Burmese Communist Party up into several armed insurgent groups.
The victims, they said, might have been crew members who had mutinied, thieves caught stealing or simply rival fishermen.
In the movie, the steps, now cordoned off for military reasons, were the scene of a brutal confrontation between Czarist troops and Odesan sympathizers with the revolutionaries on the Potemkin, who mutinied in 1905.
Others have speculated that Russians have so much adoration for this place that soldiers mutinied and refused to bombard it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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