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rebelled

Verb

The word is derived from rebel

Meaning

of Rebel

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage. Björk

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. Mark Knopfler

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. George Orwell

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work. Rose Wilder Lane

...in our society... this has now become a propagandist system in which emphasis is put on the future... the ideology against which the young people of the 1950's and 1960's rebelled. Future preference: plan; study hard; save. Carroll Quigley

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled. Alicia Sacramone

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