insurge

See also: insurgé

English

Etymology

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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.
   • 1856, The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 295:

     Thus before July, 1855, Spain was again convulsed, and Catalonia insurged under Cabecilla Marsal, the Carlist chief.

   • 1866, Belgravia, Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, page 334:

     Well then, the insurgents who insurged against the other insurgents of 4th September said very wisely, that they were just as good as the other side; and certainly they had equal right with them.

   • 1910, The Tariff Review ..., page 216:

     They have been trying to do enough insurging to satisfy the insurgents in their district, but they will not do any more. They have done just enough to show their political interest in the question with which they are confronted […]

   • 1911, American Economist, pages 199, 225:

     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 […]
     Senator 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.

   • 2007 January 9, Michael L. Bromley, William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909_1913, McFarland, →ISBN, page 243:

     The Old Guard was on Taft's side, not other way around, as the insurgents complained. […] In opposing the President, there was no political downside for the Senate insurgents. […] Instead, the insurgents insurged.

   • 2018 December 9, Katherine Hurlin, The Insurgents: Plotting to Overthrow the Regent, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 10:

     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.

French

Verb

insurge

1. inflection of insurger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

īnsurge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of īnsurgō

Spanish

Verb

insurge

1. inflection of insurgir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative