armed uprising
Forceful government overthrow
An armed uprising is a violent rebellion against established authority, typically a government, in which participants use weapons to challenge or overthrow those in power.
The phrase emphasizes both the use of force and the movement's origins from below—citizens or subjects rising against rulers rather than a military coup from within: The armed uprising spread from the capital to provincial cities within days.
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- mutinyRevolt against authority
- military coupArmed seizure of government
coup · seize power · revolution · civil war · insurgency · barricades · street fighting · militia · guerrilla · freedom fighters · overthrow · weapons · rifles · resistance · siege · storming · bloodshed · martyrs
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
- 1837 RebellionsPatriots, rebels, rebellion leaders, rebel forces, insurgents
- 1905 RevolutionBloody Sunday, Tsar Nicholas II, Potemkin, general strike, Winter Palace
- Communist RevolutionOctober Revolution, Russian Revolution, proletariat, Bolsheviks, Lenin
- coupscoup d'etat, overthrow, coup attempt, soft coup, failed coup
armed uprisingpeaceful protest
Nonviolent collective expression of dissent
nonviolent resistance · civil disobedience · passive resistance · peaceful demonstration · satyagraha
armed uprisingpolitical stability
Enduring, predictable state authority
civil order · peace · social order · social harmony · law and order
armed uprisingmartial law
Armed forces governance
military occupation · counterinsurgency · police action · military crackdown · government crackdown
armed, arms, arming, armament, armaments, armor, armory, armature, disarm