insurgency
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8.4
- noun
- /ɪnˈsɜrdʒənsi/
- Literature
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insurgencia
- The government struggled to contain the growing insurgency that threatened its authority throughout the region.
- counter-insurgency
- fight the insurgency
- guerrilla insurgency
The Ukrainian insurgency is likely to survive.
- The Ukrainian insurgency is likely to survive.
- Forget he he's getting attacked with his squad by the insurgency that broke through the gate.
- Where that insurgency is starting to organize into ISIS itself.
- You know, we, we took these chances, but at the same time the insurgency upped their game.
- They have, they have, they're armed groups, which is one of the, the requirements of the insurgency, right?
- A lot of a lot of Al Qaeda and the insurgency got pushed out of Fallujah.
- And that's, that's a counter counter insurgency tactic put up by the Mexican government.
- And on top of that, it's what I call this criminal insurgencies.
- So they're going to be forced into a, into a insurgency and then it'll be a long drawn out process.
- We need an political insurgency that puts people in power that are going to clear away the the establishment set and replace them.
Examples
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The United States is committed to restoring democracy and to address the root causes of the violent insurgency.
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He found an impossible situation, a widespread insurgency, and insufficient troops and supplies.
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Now this is a war against insurgency, so there are no clear front lines and and few major actual battles.
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You will crush this insurgency to the last man, do you hear me?
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The Ukrainian insurgency is likely to survive.
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Once we do, the insurgency will die on the vine.
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But, Mr. Mazzy, this certainly looks like an insurgency of some kind.
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There have been no studies of the impact of insurgency on the military in Peru.
Academic text (1991) -
On the one hand, you have an insurgency, made up of the regime's former elite soldiers.
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Syrian agents set up a pipeline that began to feed thousands of militants across the border and into the heart of the insurgency.
Synonyms
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5.5
Armed action by a group against an enemy or occupying force
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5.1
A group of people who rise up and use force to oppose the government
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4.1
A group of people who use weapons to fight the government
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4.6
A violent attempt to remove a government or ruler
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9.1
A planned violent attempt by a group to remove their government
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9.9
A Palestinian uprising against Israeli control in Gaza and the West Bank
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8.7
An organized group fighting against the government, often using weapons
Antonyms
How Violent
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Morphology
Etymology
Insurgency comes from the parts in- ('against') and surgere ('to rise'), the same root you see in the common word surge. So an insurgency is literally a 'rising up'—an organized group rising against the government, which explains its modern meaning.