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rebel English

Meaning rebel meaning

What does rebel mean?
Definitions in simple English

rebel Noun

— A rebel is somebody who fights against power, especially against your own government. There are six or more armed rebel groups fighting government forces in and around those forests. When he was young, he was a bit of a rebel, and was always getting in trouble at school.

rebel Verb

— If you rebel against something that has power over you, you fight against it. Teachers need to balance many things so their students don't rebel against them.

rebel

— verb take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance — noun (= insurgent) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) — verb break with established customs — noun (= maverick) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

Rebel

— noun (= Johnny, greyback) 'Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; 'greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms

Synonyms rebel synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as rebel?

rebel English » English

revolt insurgent mutineer mutiny traitor rioter insurrectionist rise resist disobey rise up renegade rebellious oppose revolutionist rebellion react nonconformist maverick bandit transgress riot revolutionary revolter resistance protester loner insurrectional insurrection iconoclast guerrilla freedom fighter dissenter defy betray arise warrior vise up against villain uprising unruly turn against troublemaker treason thief struggle separatist seditionary secessionist seceder

Rebel English » English

greyback Reb Johnny Reb Johnny Confederate soldier

Topics rebel topics

What do people use rebel to talk about?
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Rebel against authority
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Disobey

Conjugation rebel conjugation

How do you conjugate rebel?

rebel · verb

Examples rebel examples

How do I use rebel in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The notorious rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.
The rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.
Lenin ordered them to rebel.
Rebel forces prepared to fight.
I'm no rebel.
She's a bit of a rebel.
She's a little rebel.
The regime was overthrown by rebel militias.
Who doesn't love a rebel?
Tom is a rebel.
He's a rebel.
Seems we've got a rebel in our midst, eh?
I'm a rebel.

Movie subtitles

Why to be such a rebel?
You're a rebel, and see what it has done for you.
I rebel against this progress.
Rebel.
And rebel now. Now. Now is the time.
Not only has she consorted with this Saxon rebel.. foundguiltyof outlawry,theft, murder, abduction and high treason.. butshehasbetrayed her own Norman people.
I must convince you of the magic of this moment, let's grasp it and rebel against humdrum life.
Get out of the road, rebel!
You rebel!
That's a rebel hotbed.
But from our information the next rebel attempt to run gold might be more successful.
You know every rebel in town, you run errands for them.
And Missouri needs reconstruction just like any other rebel state.
That rebel was transferred here 3 months ago, for us to change her.
A rebel.
When this Pitt came to summon you, as you claim. did you know you were called to attend another rebel?
Did you know the law. that any person who does knowingly receive, harbor, comfort. or succor a rebel is as guilty as if he himself bore arms?
Not only has she consorted with this Saxon rebel found guilty of outlawry, theft, murder, abduction and high treason but she has betrayed her own Norman people.
Your Majesty thinks me a rebel?
I won't rebel against a government I served for 30 years.
Rebel, will you?
Why does she rebel?
Each prison has a rebel.
Now, if a man lives completely within himself. if he upsets the normal balance between work and play. the mind may rebel.
Proceed, captain. Take your ex-rebel.
That Rebel, he didn't know what he was saying.
Rebel?
They will be put to a cruel death, if they do not hand over that beggar and the rebel.
We must free them, the people could rebel.
The crown is not so firmly on my head that I can let a rebel tilt at it in public.
Your courage. in refusing to attend the special muster called by a rebel party faction, has not been forgotten by the Fijhrer.
I want this to be the best dancing they've had at any rebel ball since the Natchez pilgrimage began!
And if they're lucky, they might get to attend the rebel ball.
You'II be the envy of every girl at the rebel ball!
If we don't arrest the most active enemies now, they'll rebel again.
So, where is the rebel?
I am the rebel.

News and current affairs

Now, it is possible that Republican legislators may rebel against their leaders, arguing that they ran for office to govern, not to paralyze the government in the hope that doing so will give the party power to reign as it wishes after the next election.
Of course, claims and counter-claims have been swirling in the aftermath of the appalling chemical-weapons attack on a rebel-controlled area east of Damascus.
The Al Qaeda-led and Salafist extremist groups in the rebel forces, such a Al Nusra, have proved to be just as vicious as the government and its allies, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
But the united view of Western intelligence services is that there is no evidence that these rebel groups launched the chemical-weapons attack.
It makes sense to think that when state authorities enforce strict codes of behavior, people tend to rebel and move away from officially sanctioned religious institutions.
I have spent hundreds of hours working behind closed doors with various parties to the conflict - Sudan's Government, rebel leaders, neighbouring countries, and African Union partners.
This transfer of executive authority to local Chechen self-governments will continue to fail unless local Chechen rebel commanders are induced to join the talks.
A year ago, President Putin offered negotiations between his representative and an envoy of Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen rebel warlord who won internationally supervised elections as Chechen president in 1997.
True, no rebel troops are yet besieging Harare, no US warship with 2000 marines hovers on the horizon, and President George W. Bush has not demanded that President Robert Mugabe step down after 23 years in office.
Consequently, several dozen legislators, led by the perpetual rebel Ichiro Ozawa, defected from the DPJ, forming a new rump opposition party.
A united front of Israelis and Palestinians could push the Iranian people, who until recently maintained good relations with the Jewish state, to rebel against the folly that seems to have taken hold of their leaders.
President Vladimir Putin's pretense that Russian troops were not participating in the fighting was all but shattered recently, when a Russian fighter in Donetsk confirmed to the BBC Russian service that they are playing a decisive role in rebel advances.
Opponents of recent economic policy rebel against the hypothesis that an absence of government intervention and support could produce an economic decline of that magnitude today.
Such a transitional authority could call upon the international community for needed support more easily than an exiled rebel group could.
Government and rebel leaders around the globe have been put on notice that criminal conduct will no longer be given a free pass.
On the one hand, the Court's actions often have political consequences: however well-founded, accusing the leader of a rebel army may be seen as taking sides in a conflict.
What guarantees exist that the rebel groups will fully demobilize?
It is encouraging to note that Burundi's leaders have so far managed to integrate leaders from the opposition and rebel groups into the country's political and military institutions without dismissing incumbents.
Similarly, the Chinese government's later, and quite sudden, about-face in recognizing the rebel Transitional National Council as Libya's government aroused considerable sneering at home.
Obviously, Myanmar's new government does not want to aggravate sentiment in its already-unstable border areas, where rebel groups were using the dam project to rally new supporters.
Today, a quarter of a million people are on the run, almost half of them on territory under rebel control and with almost no access to aid.
He successfully portrayed himself as a rebel resisting the LDP's old guard, actually purging some of them, in defense of ordinary Japanese.
But a bitter power struggle between Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and a schism among the rebel Tamil tigers, now threatens to reignite the violence.
Liu is not a violent rebel.
In northern Uganda, ICC charges against leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have helped bring an end to years of brutal fighting, and marginalized the LRA's chief, Joseph Kony.
And the generals began providing safe havens and arms to a motley assortment of anti-Indian rebel movements that would wreak havoc in India's northeastern states and retreat to sanctuaries in the newly-renamed Myanmar.
Fonseka has promised to curtail the almost unchecked powers that the president now enjoys and free thousands of young Tamil men suspected of rebel links.

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