mutiny(n = noun.act) - open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers);
is a kind of insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising
Derived forms noun mutineer1, adjective mutinous1, verb mutiny1
mutiny(v = verb.social) - engage in a mutiny against an authority;
is one way to arise, rebel, rise, rise up
Derived forms noun mutineer1, noun mutiny1
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1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination. [1913 Webster]
"In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader." [1913 Webster]
2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife. [1913 Webster]
"To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves." [1913 Webster]
1. To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority. [1913 Webster]
2. To fall into strife; to quarrel. Shak. [1913 Webster]
mutiny, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies) an open revolt against constituted authority, esp. by soldiers or sailors against their officers.
--v.intr. (-ies, -ied) (often foll. by against) revolt; engage in mutiny.
Etymology:
obs. mutine (as MUTINOUS)
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.
VB disobey, violate, infringe, shirk, set at defiance, set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of, take the law into one's own hands, kick over the traces, turn restive, run restive, champ the bit, strike, rise, rise in arms, secede, mutiny, rebel.