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insurgent

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/ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/ (UK)
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/ɪnˈsəːdʒ(ə)nt/ (UK) · /ɪnˈsəɹd͡ʒənt/ (US)

Definition of insurgent

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Rebellious, opposing authority.
    “The insurgent provinces.”
    “Afghan National Police, backed by U.S.-led coalition forces, detained an insurgent leader during a raid in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a U.S. military statement said.”
    “Immediately following the shooting, there were multiple, coordinated information releases blaming the shooting on “Antifa,” the newest alt-right boogeyman, in what appears to be a social media blitz intended to center the conversation on the left wing. This is part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by the insurgent right wing extremists to paint radical pro-labor activists as ultraviolent “terrorists.””
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Rebellious, opposing authority.
    “The insurgent provinces.”
    “Afghan National Police, backed by U.S.-led coalition forces, detained an insurgent leader during a raid in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a U.S. military statement said.”
    “Immediately following the shooting, there were multiple, coordinated information releases blaming the shooting on “Antifa,” the newest alt-right boogeyman, in what appears to be a social media blitz intended to center the conversation on the left wing. This is part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by the insurgent right wing extremists to paint radical pro-labor activists as ultraviolent “terrorists.””
  2. (not-comparable)Of water: surging or rushing in.
    “Vesuvio groans through all his echoing caves, / And Etna thunders o'er the insurgent waves.”

noun

  1. One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.

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Etymology

From Latin īnsurgentem, accusative singular of īnsurgēns, present active participle of īnsurgō (“to rise up against, revolt”), from in (“against”) + surgō (“to rise”), itself from sub (“up from below”) + regō (“to guide, direct, rule, govern, administer”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to move in a straight line, to rule, guide, lead straight, put right”).

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