uprising
US /ˈʌpˌraɪ.zɪŋ/
UK /ˈʌpˌraɪ.zɪŋ/
1.
an act of opposition, sometimes using violence, by many people in one area of a country against those who are in power:
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Following a determined resistance in the east, there was eventually a popular uprising in the capital.