insurger

Borrowed from Latin īnsurgere.

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insurger

1. (reflexive) to rise up, to protest (against)
   • 2025 July 13, Thomas Ancona-Leger, quoting Jeremy Freitas, “La comédie de boulevard, ou la tante beauf du théâtre ?”, in La Provence, page 5:

     Quand on lui demande ce qu'il pense des critiques liées à la vulgarité de certaines pièces du genre, il s'insurge : “C'est une question de point de vue, comparé à un mec comme Bigard, on est des bisounours.”

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This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written insurge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• insurrection

• “insurger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.