MUTINY (mutinied)

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Irregular inflected form: mutinied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mutiny mean? 

• MUTINY (noun)
  The noun MUTINY has 1 sense:

1. open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

  Familiarity information: MUTINY used as a noun is very rare.

• MUTINY (verb)
  The verb MUTINY has 1 sense:

1. engage in a mutiny against an authority

  Familiarity information: MUTINY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUTINY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("mutiny" is a kind of...):

insurrection; rebellion; revolt; rising; uprising (organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another)

Derivation:

mutineer (someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers))

mutinous (disposed to or in a state of mutiny)

mutiny (engage in a mutiny against an authority)

• MUTINY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mutiny    ... he / she / it mutinies   
Past simple: mutinied   
Past participle: mutinied   
-ing form: mutinying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in a mutiny against an authority

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "mutiny" is one way to...):

arise; rebel; rise; rise up (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

mutineer (someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers))

mutiny (open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers))

 Context examples 

I never heard of a crew that meant to mutiny but what showed signs before, for any man that had an eye in his head to see the mischief and take steps according.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If any town should engage in rebellion or mutiny, fall into violent factions, or refuse to pay the usual tribute, the king has two methods of reducing them to obedience.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Pike, who had been trembling abjectly, took heart at this open mutiny, and sprang upon his overthrown leader.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The talk of laborer, woodman and villein in the inn had all pointed to the wide-spread mutiny, and now his brother's name was spoken as though he were the very centre of the universal discontent.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death- throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man's hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passion-wrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him—and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In other words, you fear a mutiny.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)