mutineering
Sailors seizing command
Mutineering is the act of engaging in mutiny—rebelling against authority, especially by sailors or soldiers against their commanders.
The word carries the active, ongoing sense of revolt: The mutineering crew seized control of the ship.
It can extend figuratively to any organized defiance of established authority.
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- seditionInciting revolt against government
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
insubordination · defiance · disobedience · resistance · dissent · defection · disaffection · coup
insurrection
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- seditionInciting revolt against government
insurgency · insubordination · defiance · disobedience · resistance · dissent · defection · disaffection · coup · overthrow
shipboard
On a vessel
deck · voyage · HMS Bounty · Potemkin · press-ganged · flogging · brig · marooning · admiralty · court-martial
mutineeringobeying
Following directives given
complying · submitting · conforming · deferring · acquiescing
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