Meaning & use

rebel

verb·Academic

To resist or fight against an authority, government, or set of accepted rules or conventions.

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The colonists rebelled against the king's new taxes and unfair laws.

As a teenager, she rebelled against every rule her parents set.

A note on using this word

"Rebelled" is the past tense of the verb "rebel"; stress shifts from the first syllable in the noun "rebel" to the second in the verb.

Words with a similar meaning

revoltedresisted

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Words with an opposite meaning

submittedobeyed

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