rebel
part of speech
noun (a rebel, rebels); verb (rebel, rebels, rebelled, rebelling); adjective (rebel)
meaning for a pupil
1) A rebel is a person who fights against the government or people in power. tree →
2) A rebel is someone who does not follow rules or what others expect. tree →
3) To rebel is to fight against or refuse to obey people in charge. tree →
4) (informal) To rebel against something like food can mean the body refuses it: «my tummy rebelled». tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons it is about uprisings and revolutions. In stories rebels can be heroes or villains. In everyday life teenagers are said to rebel against parents. Phrases: «rebel against», «a rebel without a cause», «rebel army».
examples
- The rebels fought against the king. tree →
- My cousin is a bit of a rebel at school. tree →
- The people rebelled against the unfair tax. tree →
- Teenagers sometimes rebel against rules. tree →
- The rebel army hid in the hills. tree →
- The characters in the story rebel against the robots. tree →
- She rebelled by wearing odd socks. tree →
- My stomach rebelled after too much cake. tree →
- The Members of the Body once rebelled against the Belly. tree →
note
Stress changes: noun/adjective REB-el; verb re-BEL. Verb doubles the l: rebelled, rebelling. Noun of the act: rebellion; adjective: rebellious.
In the corpora
- Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
- Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God;
- So Israel rebelled against the house of David, unto this day.
- AND MOAB rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
- But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rebel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.