HOW TO PRONOUNCE
insurgent
/ɪnˈsəɹd͡ʒənt/
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What does insurgent mean?
adjective
- Rebellious, opposing authority.
- Of water: surging or rushing in.
noun
- One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪnˈsəɹd͡ʒənt/
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All night I wrestled with a memory Which knocked insurgent at the gates of thought.
He is "Nature's insurgent son"; but, being the child of his mother, goes at the task in her old blundering way.
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Mehemet Ali used to say, I am told, that the Englishwoman had given him more trouble than all the insurgent people of Syria and Palestine.
When he had no longer any weapon, he reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm or other into his fist.
At that time, perhaps, insurgent and Standpatter, Conservative and Radical fought out the questions of the day, and the Muckrakers swung by their tails and chattered about it.