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Riot   /rˈaɪət/   Listen
Riot

noun
1.
A public act of violence by an unruly mob.  Synonym: public violence.
2.
A state of disorder involving group violence.  Synonym: rioting.
3.
A joke that seems extremely funny.  Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow.
4.
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.  Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, saturnalia.
verb
(past & past part. rioted; pres. part. rioting)
1.
Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot.
2.
Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.  Synonyms: carouse, roister.



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"Riot" Quotes from Famous Books



... use would that be?" enquired Lotys. "The soldiers would fire on the people, and there would be riot and bloodshed, but no actual redress for wrong. You ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... man whose ravings are recorded above, was a melancholy instance of the baneful results of energies misdirected in early life, and excesses prolonged until their consequences could never be repaired. The thoughtless riot, dissipation, and debauchery of his younger days produced fever and delirium. The first effects of the latter was the strange delusion, founded upon a well-known medical theory, strongly contended for by some, and as strongly contested by ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... that is condemned. You men who represent our industries can see that there is the same right to disperse unlawful assembling of wealth or power that there is to disperse a mob that has met to lynch or riot. But that principle does not denounce ...
— Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. - A Collection of Speeches and Messages • Calvin Coolidge
... about the end of this period, that the haughty chieftain, now somewhat subdued by age, and no longer under the evil influence of those ungovernable passions that had run riot with him in his more vigorous years, was invited, along with his lady, to a great entertainment which was about to be given by his father-in-law. M'Morrough and his lady proceeded to the castle of their relative. The banquet hall was lighted up; it was ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton
... thus addressed the swine: "My house and garden both be thine; Feast on potatoes as you please, And riot 'midst the beans and peas; Turnips and carrots, pig, devour, And broccoli and cauliflower; But spare my tulips—my delight, By which ...
— Fables of John Gay - (Somewhat Altered) • John Gay


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