insurge

present singular third person insurges · participle present insurging · participle past insurged · past insurged

1. transitiveTo rise up as an insurgent or in an insurgency.

   Thus before July, 1855, Spain was again convulsed, and Catalonia insurged under Cabecilla Marsal, the Carlist chief.

   1856, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 295

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   Well then, the insurgents who insurged against the other insurgents of 4th September said very wisely, that they were just as good as the other side; and certainly they had equal right with them.

   1866, Belgravia, Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, page 334

   They have been trying to do enough insurging to satisfy the insurgents in their district, but they will not do any more. They have done just enough to show their political interest in the question with which they are confronted[…]

   1910, The Tariff Review ..., page 216

   Will the Insurgents, who did the work of the big importers in undermining our Tariff dam, now find as much to flatter them in the importing press as they did when insurging for a general smashing of schedule K and […] Senator Cummins of Iowa was the original Insurgent and an early and ardent advocate of fake reciprocity. […] Naturally that Iowa idea became marvelously popular in Iowa, and the sons of the soil rose up and insurged mightily.

   1911, American Economist, pages 199, 225

   The Old Guard was on Taft's side, not other way around, as the insurgents complained. […] In opposing the President, there was no political downside for the Senate insurgents. […] Instead, the insurgents insurged.

   2007 January 9, Michael L. Bromley, William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909_1913, McFarland, →ISBN, page 243

   Shocking as this may sound, I had recognized Insurgents before. They were our brothers, after all. They had rebelled and insurged, then gone out to the mucky marshes to plan our complete destruction and the devastation of our Regent.

   2018 December 9, Katherine Hurlin, The Insurgents: Plotting to Overthrow the Regent, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 10