"insurge" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: insurges [present, singular, third-person], insurging [participle, present], insurged [participle, past], insurged [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} insurge (third-person singular simple present insurges, present participle insurging, simple past and past participle insurged)
  1. To rise up as an insurgent or in an insurgency.
    Sense id: en-insurge-en-verb-lt8Pzx8B Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1856, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 295:",
          "text": "Thus before July, 1855, Spain was again convulsed, and Catalonia insurged under Cabecilla Marsal, the Carlist chief.",
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          "ref": "1866, Belgravia, Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, page 334:",
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          "ref": "1910, The Tariff Review ..., page 216:",
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          "ref": "1911, American Economist, pages 199, 225:",
          "text": "Will the Insurgents, who did the work of the big importers in undermining our Tariff dam, now find as much to flatter them in the importing press as they did when insurging for a general smashing of schedule K and […]\nSenator Cummins of Iowa was the original Insurgent and an early and ardent advocate of fake reciprocity. […] Naturally that Iowa idea became marvelously popular in Iowa, and the sons of the soil rose up and insurged mightily.",
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          "ref": "2007 January 9, Michael L. Bromley, William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909_1913, McFarland, →ISBN, page 243:",
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          "ref": "2018 December 9, Katherine Hurlin, The Insurgents: Plotting to Overthrow the Regent, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 10:",
          "text": "Shocking as this may sound, I had recognized Insurgents before. They were our brothers, after all. They had rebelled and insurged, then gone out to the mucky marshes to plan our complete destruction and the devastation of our Regent.",
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          "ref": "1910, The Tariff Review ..., page 216:",
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