Crossword clues for rebelled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rebel \Re*bel"\ (r[-e]*b[e^]l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rebelled (r[-e]*b[e^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Rebelling.] [F. rebeller, fr. L. rebellare to make war again; pref. re- again + bellare to make war, fr. bellum war. See Bellicose, and cf. Revel to carouse.]
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To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
The murmur and the churls' rebelling.
--Chaucer.Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord.
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To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
How could my hand rebel against my heart? How could your heart rebel against your reason?
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: rebel)
WordNet
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]
See rebel
Usage examples of "rebelled".
A few years later, when the province of Lusitania, in western Spain, rebelled against Roman occupation, its city of Numantia was wiped off the face of the map and its citizens massacred or sold into slavery.
Southwestern states, rebelled against their feudal working conditions.
As Pygmalion had rebelled against his master, so, someday, Ryuhito would become Pygmalion's rival, and in his choice of appellation for the diminutive Dark Lord, he let the seeds of his rebellion germinate.
He would know ft, and could confirm for us that the place connected to the base Build-more was constructing was Pygmalion's stronghold—much as Jytte had managed to do on our recent recon of the Pulliam estate, ft was the right choice, the logical choice, but part of me rebelled at the idea of bringing a 5-year-old child back to the place where he had been traumatized.
The Dark Lord's emotions rollercoastered through the battle and finished somewhere close to begrudged respect for the minion who had rebelled and created his champion's undoing.
In my mind, I rebelled at "making a seaman," even on a ship that had been bought by gold from my father, who was helping his wife's brother up in the world: a fact I knew but was astute enough never to mention even if the knowledge galled me.
Teach them not to act on anonymous accusations against a High Families lad—even one who's rebelled against his background and is working incognito?
At first Amalda had rebelled at being forced to work with Harold but she could not refute the fact that he would react instantly to her emotions and until she could control them in his presence, she couldn't expect to be able to control them sufficiently in public.
The Balisdelians got greedy, Trundimoux miners rebelled, settled the better planet and one of the outer moons.
He even recalled how he had rebelled against the tedious jotting down of a technique that might now save thousands of people.
Her body, however, lying warm and quivering, yearning for the touch of his strong, lean hands, rebelled against the common-sense strictures of her mind.
As soon as he had the thought, his mind rebelled against it with angry possessiveness.
She had absolutely rebelled against buying anything sedate and conservative.
The most sensible place was right there on the concrete, and everything fastidious in her rebelled at the idea.
But everything in her rebelled against that idea, against recounting those dreams to a stranger.