Insurgent - English meaning

noun

A person who urges others to protest or rebel.

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A political agitator

noun

Someone who tries to make people take part in protests and political activities, especially ones that cause trouble

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It is thought that the strike was the work of undercover political agitators.

noun

A person who advocates or promotes anarchism or anarchy.

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They were made up of socialists, republicans, anarchists, revolutionary syndicalists and catholics.

adjective

A person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy.

noun

A person who believes in anarchism

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He was a poet, an anarchist, and a vegan., an anarchist group/slogan/bookshop, anarchist tendencies…

adjective

Involving or relating to an attack using living matter, such as bacteria, to harm or kill people for political reasons

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Until recently, bioterrorist attacks were considered unlikely., law enforcement authorities are oft…

noun

Someone who takes part in cyberterrorism

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Unidentified cyberterrorists gained access to emails and financial details of customers.

noun

A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.

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This town fell to the guerrillas

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A member of an unofficial military group that is trying to change the government by making sudden, unexpected attacks on the official army forces

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Guerrilla warfare

adjective

Using unusual methods to create or get attention for your ideas, art, products, etc., usually ones that cost little money and involve using public spaces

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He films on the streets, with a tiny budget - this is guerrilla film-making., a new work by the "gu…

noun

A person, especially a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.

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Those who resisted were denounced as mutineers and treated accordingly

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Someone who takes part in a mutiny

noun

A person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or leader.

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Tory rebels

verb

Rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or leader.

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The earl of pembroke subsequently rebelled against henry iii

noun

A person who refuses to accept the government’s power and uses force to oppose it, or a person who opposes authority and thinks or behaves differently

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The government tried to set up talks with the rebels., though he dressed unusually, he never meant …

adjective

Involving or causing a complete or dramatic change.

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A revolutionary new drug

noun

A person who advocates or engages in political revolution.

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They would act like any revolutionary vanguard, as lenin or indeed the french revolutionaries had i…

adjective

Relating to a complete change in a system of government, or bringing or causing great change

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A revolutionary leader/program/idea, computers have brought revolutionary changes to publishing.

adjective

A revolutionary product, process, or idea is new and exciting and not like anything that has existed or been done before

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This is a revolutionary device that will leapfrog current technology., a revolutionary approach/idea

noun

A person who takes part in a riot or violent public disturbance.

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More than a dozen rioters have been arrested

noun

One of a group of people who meet in a public place and behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way, often as a protest

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Police and rioters clashed violently., she watched rioters setting fire to the vehicles.

adjective

Seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution.

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Subversive literature

noun

A subversive person.

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They and their companions were identified as subversives

adjective

Tending to weaken or destroy an established political system, organization, or authority

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The fbi had the duty of obtaining evidence of subversive activity., the book describes the techniqu…

noun

A person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

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Four commercial aircraft were hijacked by terrorists

adjective

Unlawfully using violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

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A terrorist organization

noun

Someone who uses violent action, or threats of violent action, for political purposes

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Several terrorists have been killed by their own bombs., there has been an increase in terrorist at…