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noun

Riot n.

Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. "His headstrong riot hath no curb."

Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. "Venus loveth riot and dispense." "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day."

(Law) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

To run riot, to act wantonly or without restraint.

verb

Riot v. t. To spend or pass in riot. "(He) had rioted his life out."

Riot v. i. (past & past part. rioted; pres. part. rioting)

To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. "Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law." "No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows."

(Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.

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Etymology of 'Riot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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