# rebelling

Pronunciation: say "ri-BEL-ing" /ɹɪˈbɛlɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of rebel. — present participle and gerund of rebel
   - Simple: Present participle of rebel. Use this form for the fighting-against happening right now.
   - _Colonists across the region were rebelling against the crown's demands._
   - _The province kept rebelling against every governor sent to rule it._

## Noun

2. An act or feeling of resistance against an established authority or set of rules.
   - Simple: An act of going against people in charge, or the wish to do so.
   - _The teenager's rebelling was dismissed by relatives as just a passing phase._
   - _A slow rebelling spread through the ranks once the unfair orders piled up._

## Origin

From Middle English rebellyng, formed from rebel and the suffix -ing.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/rebelling (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).