mutiny

From Middle French mutiner

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmju.tə.ni/, /ˈmjut.ni/ (syncope)
• enPR: myo͞oʹtə-nē, myo͞otʹnē

mutiny (countable and uncountable, plural mutinies)

1. An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
   • Macaulay

     In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader.

2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
   • Shakespeare

     Raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.

• mutineer
• mutinous

mutiny (third-person singular simple present mutinies, present participle mutinying, simple past and past participle mutinied)

1. (intransitive) To commit mutiny.

   The crew of the Bounty mutinied because of the harsh discipline of Captain Bligh.

• Mutiny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mutiny in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• munity