failed coup
Unsuccessful government seizure
A failed coup is an unsuccessful attempt to seize power from a government by force or unconstitutional means.
The attempt may collapse due to lack of military support, public resistance, or poor planning.
Unlike successful coups, failed ones typically result in the arrest or exile of conspirators: The generals who led the failed coup were court-martialed.
The phrase often appears in news coverage of political instability.
- putschForcible government overthrow attempt
- juntaPost-coup ruling clique
- seize powerTake control by force
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
insurrection · mutiny · treason · tanks · generals · plotters · arrested · house arrest · exile · firing squad · loyalists · radio silence · broadcast · presidential palace · palace · barricades · martial law · state of emergency
- coupsoverthrow, ousting, dethronement, putsch, dethroning
failed couprevolution
Violent governmental overthrow
regime change · seizure of power · palace coup · bloodless coup · overthrow
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