Meaning & use
rebel
To resist or fight against an authority, government, or set of accepted rules or conventions.
See it in a sentence
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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