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adjectivein opposition to a civil authority or government
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nouna member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassmenttype of:
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nouna person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
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Definition that contains insurgent
- wallace Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)
- lucknow a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were besieged by Indian insurgents
- lucknow the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857)
- fatah a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups
- al-fatah a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups
- sir william wallace Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)
- al-ma'unah a radical insurgent Islamist group consisting of disaffected middle-class professionals in Malaysia who want to overthrow the government by violent means and set up an Islamic state
- tupac katari guerrilla army a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara; attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings
- dirty war an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims
- young turk a member of one or more of the insurgent groups in Turkey in the late 19th century who rebelled against the absolutism of Ottoman rule