verb
definition
To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
definition
To have an upward direction or inclination
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To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
noun
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A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection.
Examples of uprising in a Sentence
Glorious is thine uprising from the horizon.
What reason was there for assuming any probability of an uprising in the city?
In the Mutiny of 1857 Morar was the scene of the most serious uprising in Central India.
In 89 he was expelled by a popular uprising and perished the following year in a sea-fight with the Alexandrian ships off Cyprus.
The Hussite movement was also a democratic one, an uprising of the peasantry against the landowners at a period when a third of the soil belonged to the clergy.
The news of the English revolution of 1688, however, caused an uprising in Boston, and in April.
Gregory interfered to prevent a national conspiracy against the Langobards, like that of St Brice's day in England against the Danes, or that later uprising against the French, the Sicilian Vespers.
In 1932 there was a mainly indigenous uprising in El Salvador that was brutally put down, with more than 10,000 indigenous people massacred.
The Warsaw Uprising was a valiant attempt in 1944 by the Home army of Warsaw to defeat the German army in their city.
Only a combined uprising headed by the working class can achieve its aim.
He also has been linked to the bloody crackdown on Shiites in southern Iraq following a 1991 uprising following the Gulf War.
A bloody military campaign by Serb forces to suppress the uprising took almost 7 years to complete.
A few weeks later, the government crushed an uprising by 400 troops in the capital.
He was also involved with the radical group who instigated the 1825 Decembrist uprising.
But on the other hand the very elimination of John could have sparked just the very uprising that Herod feared.
There are many lessons in the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
Queen Elizabeth I crushes a Catholic uprising in the north of England.
They possessed some arms, but the supply was insufficient, and the leaders were hoping for a French invasion to make good the deficiency and to give support to a popular uprising.
He was a faithful servant of the house of Habsburg, and one of the government officials who were thrown from the windows of the Hradcany palace in 1618, at the beginning of the Bohemian uprising.
The "Bread and Cheese War," an uprising of the peasants in North Holland caused by famine, is a proof of the misery caused by civil discords and oppressive taxation.
They began the counter-offensive against the Poles under General Erich von dem Bach who assumed command of all German forces suppressing the Uprising.
It was the scene of a massive refugee exodus following an uprising against Saddam that was crushed in 1991.
The first stage was the popular uprising under Wallace and Andrew Moray, whose backbone was an armed peasantry led by minor gentry.
The toppling of the statue was promoted as a massive uprising; does this even look massive to you?
Thus, with the same old familiar faces marching in the streets, the projected People's uprising never materialized.
Blair's current backbench opposition is no uprising of virgins, but just the continuation of behavior seen throughout the preceding years.
After brutally ending the uprising, the Germans systematically razed Warsaw to the ground.
Helped lead the Hungarian uprising of 1956 against Stalinist repression.
Since then, they have been hatching a suitably sinister plot to ensure they don't see a recurrence of the civil uprising.
For two months, the people of Warsaw fought the Germans in an uprising that should have received the support of the Allies.
Thomas More attempts to quell the uprising with wise words pleading for racial harmony.
An armed uprising in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 was put down by the British.
Here they might have faced a Kurdish uprising for national independence.
I called it a " spontaneous civil uprising of a " disenfranchised people " .
Consider why the 45 was the last Jacobite uprising.
There is humor mixed with the wishful thinking in his imagined peasant uprising.
They were particularly concerned that they would be used to signal a slave uprising.
A mass uprising is no isolated undertaking, which can be conjured up any time one pleases.
The Iraqi forces are most likely to fire chemical warheads to cover their retreat or to put down an internal uprising, officials said.
The three main steps in the argument are the veracity of our thought when that thought is true to itself, the inevitable uprising of thought from its fragmentary aspects in our habitual consciousness to the infinite and perfect existence which God is, and the ultimate reduction of the material universe to extension and local movement.
Porto Rico was comparatively unaffected by the great SpanishAmerican uprising of the early 19th century.
The numbers of the half-breed settlers of this district had been increased by the migration of many of those who had taken part in the first uprising at Fort Garry.
To half-breed rebellion was added the imminent danger of an Indian uprising, to which Riel looked for support.
In the uprising the Mankato band was led by another chief named Mankato, who took part in the attack on Ft Ridgeley, Minn., in August, in the engagement on the 3rd of September at Birch Coolie, Minn., and in that on the 23rd of September at Wood Lake, where he was killed.
Since then, they have been hatching a suitably sinister plot to ensure they do n't see a recurrence of the civil uprising.
Industrial and suffragette action increased, while divisions in Ireland hardened, leading to the Easter Uprising and its bitter consequences.
In his efforts to suppress an uprising of the ex-slave population in Jamaica, Eyre had executed a leading revolutionary without trial.
Talabani said an independent Iraqi uprising against Saddam depended on an unlikely alliance among the country 's different ethnic, political and religious groups.
However, in 1959 following a Tibetan uprising against the Chinese occupation, the practice of Buddhism was banned.
At least the Palestinian uprising has relieved some of the pressure from Israel.