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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sometimes limited popular revolt against a constituted government or its policies; a rebellion.
  2. n. The act or an instance of rising or rising up.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of rising up, as from below the horizon, from a bed or seat, or from the grave.
  2. n. Ascent; acclivity; rising.
  3. n. A riot; an emeute; a rebellion; insurrection; popular revolt.
  4. n. The ceremonies connected with the recovery and reappearance in society of a lady of rank after the birth of a child. Compare lying-down.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection
  2. v. present participle of uprise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
  2. n. An insurrection; a popular revolt.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

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