insurgent
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- noun
- /ɪnˈsɜrdʒənt/
- Literature
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insurgente
- In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, Islamic insurgents threaten to take power and offer safe haven to terrorists.
- attacks by insurgents
- fight insurgents
- target insurgents
The insurgents snuck up behind the the front.
- The insurgents snuck up behind the the front.
- And yet we see what the insurgents are doing.
- So we liberated that city from the insurgents.
- The pilots claimed that they thought the journalists and civilians were insurgents.
- And but it made me wish that we'd put a lot more of those insurgents in the dirt than we did.
- And we do know of drone strikes absolutely terrifying people and motivating people to become insurgents and to fight the United States.
- And the Americans are actually furnishing weapons and training to the Iraqi police who were also insurgents in Fallujah.
- And, and you can take it to the ultimate extreme of foreign insurgents of extremism.
- Knowing that they were armed, dangerous insurgents started to, to, to pull back level with the trackers.
- They were of course working for the this, I'll call them insurgents.
- Well, Summer said they had an advantage in their 'cause they were the insurgent.
- And those troops will not be able to, if they're, if they're mingled civilian and, and insurgents.
- Now this is like we've all let's let's say this as it is with all these terrorists and insurgents, we out there to first of all, ideally apprehend.
Examples
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Once the Mexican military began to move against the insurgents, fighting escalated.
Academic text (1999) -
In December 2010, U.S. counterterrorism officials reported an uptick in the number of insurgents entering Iraq via Syria.
Academic text (2011) -
Situation enemy forces, we're dealing with one lone insurgent.
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There are insurgents that actually control a majority of the city.
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This is the man who knows where the insurgents are?
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Insurgents are fighting the army.
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We are pursuing insurgents... in white taxi north through the city.
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After many years, the insurgents would topple Saddam's regime and gain control.
Academic text (1999) -
They've fought insurgents and tried to stabilize a country famous for its instability.
Academic text (2011) -
The army launched a campaign to capture the insurgents hiding in the mountains.
Synonyms
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A person who acts against the government or people in power
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A fighter in a small armed group who attacks a larger army using surprise attacks
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Actively taking part in armed fighting or war
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A person who supports or takes part in political change to remove a government
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A person who uses weapons against a government to gain independence or basic rights
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A person who tries to weaken or remove a government
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A person who takes part in an armed attack to try to remove a government
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A person who joins or leads a public rebellion against the government
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A person who encourages others to rebel against the government or other authority
A person who takes part in a revolt against authority
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Etymology
Insurgent comes from the Latin parts in- and surgere, where surgere means 'to rise' and you can see the same root in surge. So an insurgent is a person who 'rises up' against the government or other authority.