insurgent
/in-SUR-junt/nouna rebel against authority; rising in revolt
“Insurgents held the ridge for a month.”
- Synonyms
- rebel, revolutionary, mutineer
- Antonyms
- loyalist
- Memory hook
- in + surgere (rise): those who rise up.
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