rising

noun

ris·ing | \ ˈrī-ziŋ

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: insurrection, uprising

rising

adverb

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: approaching a stated age : nearly a red cow rising four years old — Lancaster (Pa.) Jour.

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He was the leader of an armed rising against the elected government. a great rising of the people was all it took to bring down a regime that imagined that it would endure for a thousand years

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The two countries have also bickered this year about the Japanese navy’s use of the traditional rising-sun flag at an international ceremony in South Korea and over a Korean pop star’s T-shirt that depicted the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, "Bad Blood Between Japan, South Korea Tests American Strategy in Asia," 29 Nov. 2018 Instead, the regime hardened its position, fearing a repeat of the anti-Bolshevik risings of the Civil War. — Anna Reid, WSJ, "Rule by Starvation," 6 Oct. 2017

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chiefly British : a violent attempt by a group of people in a country to remove a leader or government

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