Mutiny

['mjuːtɪnɪ] or ['mjutəni]

Definition

(noun.) open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers).

(verb.) engage in a mutiny against an authority.

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Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) Violent commotion; tumult; strife.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To fall into strife; to quarrel.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Rebel, rise, STRIKE, resist authority.

n. Sedition, revolt, rebellion, insurrection, riot, rising, uprising.

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Definition

v.i. to rise against authority in military or naval service: to revolt against rightful authority:—pr.p. mū′tinying; pa.t. and pa.p. mū′tinied.—n. insurrection against constituted authority esp. naval or military: revolt tumult strife.—adj. Mū′tinous disposed to mutiny: seditious.—adv. Mū′tinously.—n. Mū′tinousness.—Mutiny Act an act passed by the British parliament from year to year to regulate the government of the army from 1689 down to 1879 when it was superseded by the Army Discipline and Regulation Act modified by the Army Act of 1881.

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