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rebel

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adj. used by northerners of Confederate soldiers; "the rebel yell" participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; "the rebelling confederacy" [syn: rebel(a) , rebelling(a) , rebellious ] [also: rebelling , rebelled ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES rebel forces (= who are fighting against the government ) ▪ The village was attacked by rebel forces. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN army ▪ Two neighboring countries and three rebel armies have been fighting since ...

Usage examples of rebel.

That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions.

Rebel broke out the programmer and ran a cleaning pad over the adhesion disks.

Not only had the general mass of rebels been pardoned by the amnesty proclamation of May 29th, but many thousands of the classes excepted in that instrument had afterwards received special pardons from the President.

In the spring of 1930 three young lieutenants, Ludin, Scheringer and Wendt, of the garrison at Ulm were arrested for spreading Nazi doctrines in the Army and for trying to induce their fellow officers to agree that in the case of an armed Nazi revolt they would not fire on the rebels.

Kurt von Schuschnigg, quickly regained control, and the rebels, though promised safe-conduct to Germany through the intervention of the German minister, were arrested and thirteen of them later hanged.

Tielen soldiers everywhere: lining the quay as Astasia disembarked, guarding the Water Gate, and patrolling the outer walls where the rebels had smashed down the iron railings as they stormed the palace.

And, as we have already seen, the Rebels of the South were not slow in following the baleful advice to the letter.

Kirk looked around, almost falling again, and saw ha Bem and the rest of the Pandronian soldiers following In the confusion which had thrown everyone to the 140 STAR TREK tilde tilde ground the well-trained Pandronian troops had reacted more professionally than the Klingon-led rebels.

He acted with remarkable swiftness: on the 27th he dispersed the commandos of Beyers and Kemp, and on 7 November General Smuts announced that there were but a few scattered bands of rebels in the Transvaal.

The Rebels blockaded a ford in such a way that it was almost impossible for a horse to keep his feet.

We learned afterward that the Rebels made a practice of breaking up all the boats along the shore to prevent negros and their own deserters from escaping to the blockading fleet.

It is said that our officers in the blockading fleet in the Gulf heard from the negros in advance of the publication in the Rebel papers of the issuance of the Proclamation of Emancipation, and of several of our most important Victories.

The Rebels held the strong forts of Caswell and Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and outside, the Frying Pan Shoals, which extended along the coast forty or fifty miles, kept our blockading fleet so far off, and made the line so weak and scattered, that there was comparatively little risk to the small, swift-sailing vessels employed by the blockade runners in running through it.

And his songs shall fill all climes, And the rebels shall rise and march again Down the lines of his glorious rhymes.

The codling told us that a Rebel spy had been caught trying its fords a little while ago, and was now at Camp Curtin with a heavy ball chained to his leg,--a popular story, but a lie, Dr.