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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uprising
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
popular
▪ The regime was overthrown by a popular uprising on Dec. 22, 1989.
▪ But as normality resumes, a strange myth still hovers around the popular uprising that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic.
▪ Marcos was overthrown in 1986 after a popular uprising.
■ VERB
crush
▪ Troops were sent in to crush the uprising at Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo.
suppress
▪ Some seek revenge for atrocities committed in suppressing the Shia uprising.
▪ Force is conveniently used to suppress political uprising.
▪ This runs parallel with the use of force to suppress uprisings in poor nations against policies of these same institutions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crush a rebellion/uprising/revolt etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a failed uprising against French colonial rule
▪ Peasant uprisings were the first signs of discontent among the people.
▪ The new law prompted a pro-democracy uprising in the south.
▪ The new leader put down the uprising by dispatching government troops to the area.
▪ The President took immediate steps to quell the uprising.
▪ The short-lived uprising fizzled out in the face of strong opposition from government forces.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels.
▪ At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.
▪ Conditions in Kursk town seemed propitious for an anti-Bolshevik armed peasant uprising in October.
▪ Recruits to the rebel cause were also thought to include students and survivors of the failed 1985 uprising led by Brig.
▪ The day he shook off their protection they instigated a guerrilla uprising backed by their own troops.
▪ The regime was overthrown by a popular uprising on Dec. 22, 1989.
▪ The site suggests that considerable preparation was made for the uprising.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uprising

Uprising \Up*ris"ing\, n.

  1. Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. ``The steep uprising of the hill.''
    --Shak.

  2. An insurrection; a popular revolt.
    --J. P. Peters.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uprising

mid-13c., "action of rising from death or the grave, resurrection," from up (adv.) + rising (n.). Meaning "action of rising from bed" is recorded from c.1300; sense of "insurrection, popular revolt" first attested 1580s.

Wiktionary
uprising

n. A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection. vb. (present participle of uprise English)

WordNet
uprising

n. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising]

Wikipedia
Uprising (Bob Marley and the Wailers album)

Uprising is a 1980 reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Marley died the following year, and Uprising was the final studio album released during his lifetime. This album is one of Marley's most directly religious, with nearly every song addressing his Rastafarian beliefs, culminating in the acoustic recording of " Redemption Song".

Uprising peaked at #41 on Billboard's (North America) Black Albums chart, and #45 on the Pop Albums chart. " Could You Be Loved" was #6 and #56 respectively on the Club Play Singles and Black Singles charts. The album fared better in the UK where it was a top ten hit along with the single "Could You Be Loved" which reached number 5 in the UK singles charts.

Uprising (disambiguation)

Uprising is a synonym for rebellion, and may also refer to:

Uprising (Entombed album)

Uprising is the sixth full-length album by Swedish metal band Entombed. It was released in 2000. Album was recorded at Das Boot Studios and produced by Nico Elgstrand and Entombed.

Uprising (Concord Dawn album)

Uprising is an album by New Zealand drum and bass group Concord Dawn, released in 2003. Classed as their most popular album, it features other New Zealand musicians such as Scribe and Salmonella Dub's front man Tiki and DJ Optiv.

Uprising (Universal Poplab album)

Uprising is the second album by the Swedish synthpop band Universal Poplab, released November 29, 2006 through Wonderland Records. The album was preceded by two singles, "I Could Say I'm Sorry" and "Heart Apart".

Uprising (novel)

Uprising is a novel for young people written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007.

Uprising (song)

"Uprising" is a song by the English rock band Muse. It was released as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album, The Resistance, on 7 September 2009. The song was written by band member Matthew Bellamy, produced by the band themselves, and mixed by Mark 'Spike' Stent. "Uprising" had a very positive commercial performance, peaking within the top ten in seven countries. It was certified silver in the United Kingdom, gold in four countries, platinum in two countries, and double-platinum in the United States making it Muse's best selling single.

Uprising (2012 film)

Uprising is a 2012 documentary that traces the origins of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 that began in January 2011. It provides a first hand account of the early stages of revolution and follows various leaders and organizers of the movement. The film is directed and produced by Fredrik Stanton and is being distributed by Zeitgeist Films.

Uprising (2001 film)

Uprising is a 2001 war/ drama television miniseries about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Avnet and Paul Brickman. It was filmed in multiple locations, including Bratislava, Slovakia and Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria. This miniseries was first aired on the NBC television network over two consecutive nights during November 2001.

The miniseries's soundtrack was the last film score composed by Maurice Jarre, and prominently features the work of Max Bruch, including his Violin Concerto No. 1 during the opening sequence.

Uprising (Bleed from Within album)

Uprising is the third studio album by Scottish metalcore band Bleed from Within, released on 25 March 2013 through Century Media Records. It is the band's first record to feature guitarist Martyn Evans, who replaced founding guitarist Dave Lennon in 2011.

Usage examples of "uprising".

So he suffered in silence, creaked miserably at his uprising and down-sitting, and was happily unaware that everyone in Billabong knew perfectly well what was the matter with him.

The watch had suffered a mishap about a hundred years ago during a major Daimon uprising.

We have already brought Hyrillka and Dzelluria into our fold, and now we wish Dobro to join this uprising.

The information that he imparted was that Killer Durgan, accompanied by Ernie Shires and a few others, intended to appear on a Brooklyn dock where both Hennesy and Larrigan would be, and be the motive of a general uprising that would end the tottering regime of Bart Hennesy.

General Machero was given the chief role in the organization of the uprising, and in a few weeks the Echeveria government fell, following which Machero was installed as provisional president.

And second, if Foaly is being blamed for this little uprising, Koboi will want to pretend they had no weapons, just like the LEP.

Instantly a burst of hopeful conviction grew in him that this must be a punitive force sent by one of the local Great Houses to put down the uprising that had broken out on the Getfen lands, but then he realized that the motorcycle outriders, though they were helmeted and carried rifles, did not wear the uniforms of any formal peacekeeping-force but rather were clad in a hodgepodge of Folkish dress, jerkins, doublets, overalls, tunics, the clothing of a peasantry that had abruptly been transformed into an improvised militia.

He wondered just how much the Ardardin actually knew about the reach and success of the Folkish uprising.

He still clung to the fantasy that if only he kept walking at this steady pace, ten miles a day, fifteen, however much he might be able to cover, he would come to the bottom of this continent sooner or later and cross over into Helikis, where, he wanted to believe, there had been no Folkish uprising and he would find people to help him get the rest of the way home.

Guy du Bas-Tyra fire Armengar during the Great Uprising, and when those twenty-five thousand barrels of naphtha went up, the explosion could be seen for miles.

There had been news from the Swick Reaches of an uprising of young warriors who had become discontented with settled ways.

The altered scrolls, the Wushu Uprising, the past hidden from them all, these were all reasons why he was standing where he was now.

Francesca knew the truth behind the hold Wushu Uprisings, a war that had nearly ended their whole way of life a long time ago.

She had been so careful not to make a martyr out of Braeg, and so confident that she could quell the uprisings on the outworlds, that she had allowed his affrontery to go too far.

This persecution under the Hashimite monarchy raised communists to a status near that of martyrs in the eyes of the antimonarchical postrevolutionary leaders plotting the 1958 uprising.